Myself seen by William Burroughs, Kodak Retina new-bought 2’d hand from Bowery hock-shop, our apartment roof Lower East Side between Avenues B & C, Tompkins Park trees under new antennae. Alan Ansen, Gregory Corso & Jack Kerouac visited, Jack’s The Subterraneans records much of the scene, Burroughs & I edited letter-manuscripts he’d sent from Mexico & South America, Alene Lee («Mardou Fox» of The Subterraneans) typed final drafts. Neighborhood was heavily Polish & Ukranian, some artists, junkies, medical students, cheap restaurants like «Leshkos» corner 7th & A, rent was only ¼ of my monthly $120 wage as newspaper copyboy. Time of «The Green Automobile» poem to Cassady, Fall 1953.

Photographs taken by the beat poet Allen Ginsberg.