David Madden > Status Update

I have been reading MY LIFE AND LOVES IN GREENWICH VIILLAGE by the romantic, lyric poet Maxwell Bodenheim. Every line is as rich as this one: “Our own crushed lives often sit beside us, staring at us with sharp, accusing eyes, like vengeful ghosts seeking retribution.” Wearing a trench coat, Bodenheim drifted every night into San Remo’s in Greenwich Village in the early 1950’s. I sometimes talked with the once celeb