Harry Nudel:
I must have 1st met Ted
in the Summer of '79. I was selling
books on Soho-St...he came by & i
gave him a copy of my book...2 hrs
later he was back "you WROTE this?"
We hit it off. Ted who always
needed a place to stay, lived with
me for 3 weeks..he was the perfect
houseguest..as if he was a pro..
somewhere there's a picture he
took of ladder, cat, book, me
& Jess..my then 8 yr old..
Once he brought up two
gorgeous black Philly School
Teachers..Ted could charm the
snake...towel naked apres
les bain...i had to mention
i was married..tojours regret..
Once we went to a po-reading
at the Old West-End..i priggishly
insisted Ted pay the 2 buck
cover.."to support the art"
Ted of no bread...the later
Ted of "No Bread No Ted".. pd
up...
In a copy of Flying Pyrana
he wrote "good morning
Harry
How do you do?
This is your surrealist
black brother
presenting
this to you..
30/July/79
That summer I must have
been in lv with some one..
from a poem i gave Ted & which
he returned to me...10 yrs
later..surrealcastaway
ALL SORTS OF 3rd St. Love
I'd even give up
Sleeping with you
To be yr friend
...
'Love' the cockroach
After you kill 'em
...
No names
please
Mr. Sweetness/
Miss Light
...
horny
is
as..
2 yrs later..he gave
me & A...a cupcake and
one of his books, What Else?
as a present for our formal
wedding...
May 15 1981 4:30 PM
Cuntgragulations
on your new
true day
(of marital
bliss
So cock-a-doodle-do
to two of you
with Afrodisia
Love
Ted Joans & Alicia..
(N.B...the last name)
Paris...1983 in a copy of
"sure, really I, IS"
To Harry in Paris
1983 our Nesting
Place amongst Palaces
August
Le Premier
1983..
Paris 1984..in a copy of
"The Aardvark Watcher
Der Erdferkelforscher"
To Harry in Paris
where he walks and walks
Sept '84
On a piece of my Stationery
Ted Joans in Paris 1990
First Phone Jim Haynes
40 rue de la Montagne Ste. Genevieve..
Write or leave Message
Daily rendezvous at Cafe Le Roquet
4-6PM
188 Blvd Saint Germaine
I sit on the left hand side of this cafe
If you do not see me, ask the waiter
In a copy of Jazz Museum Presents
Ted Joans
Il etait une fois poetry reading
moi et toi Harry....avec amities
may 19..'90
(with drawing of 2 jazz figures)
Afrodisia toujours..
After i pick him and Laura
up in my clunker car..
lunch at Sylvia's and Langston's
house..
from his own Hipness Harry
on Langston Hughes steps
at 20 east 127th ST.
Langston Hughes House
with brother-love as
Langston would have it..
29/9/92
'97...the beginning of the
end..
in a copy of Birth 3
two Rhinoceri Drawings &
to Harry Nudel (sic)
who has yet to sell
'our ticket that
could explode"
24/11/97..
All over all Over
over a
book and an ASS...
Ted and Laura
dressed as Twin
Teducations
Walk on By..
I send him anon
some Rhino stamps..
From Vancouver the
last letter 200..
'so i shall take
the chance on straightening
out the crooked curve
that cause wrinkles in
our brows.."
Ted, the lecon of the
master...
you steal from the past
esp. you own
& don't hustle the hustler...
drn/drn...
Harry Nudel & Lori Reinstein:
FEAR
FROM THE
POET
BUT THE
TRUTH
Ted f...ed...a 1,0001
women including
Marilyn Monroe
Ted roomed with
Charlie Parker
when he died
& chalked
BIRD LIVES
all over the www
Ted & Paul Bowles
drinking turkish coffee
in Tangiers
when the ferry unloaded
all these refugees...
the first time either
had seen hippies...
......
& from the other side of
the bed...
Ted
Red, white & blue
4th of July
Ted
Ted
Cairo Paris Timbuktoo
Restless, Peripatetic
now Galactic
Ted
("Be-at-ified"
We sighed)
Teducate
the stars
Ted...
Harry Nudel:
postscript:
don’t know if the TRIBUTE is the right place for this…but thot i’d pass it on…
In the generic AP obit…& few others…there’s mention that Ted was in the H.C. Portable Beat Reader…but excised from the p.b. of same…
As i remember getting the story from Ted..he was pissed at the let’s leave nameless editors… for using his po…without $$$$ or permission…..no Bread…no Ted…Hy Shore sent a letter to the pub…& Ted was edited out of this beat scene…
In Kansas on the 2nd of long 4 day USA journey across… Greyhound bus trip…Ted is eating his ubiquotous peanutbuttersandwiches…& a vin rouge in paradise…for a few centimes more…..Harry…..
