Smashing

Rejecting a Gift

By: Charles Giuliano - Oct 24, 2014

Smashing

IFIF
55 Kenwood Avenue, Newton, Mass.
Headquarters 1960s
Tim Leary and Richard Alpert
Visiting
Bruce Conner
Artist
Offered old Remington typewriter
Declined
I’m an artist no need for it
Left saying nothing
Returned with baseball bat
Smashed it to smithereens
Ribbon reels rolling angrily across floor
Lower East Side
Couple of years later
303 East 11th Street
No phone
Jim Jacobs dropped by
Have a typewriter in the car
Yours
An omen
Started typing
Have been
Ever since