In fact Acker, with her bluestocking fascinations and zero culinary skills, had now blended together forever custard and New York City. After all, Bob Zimmerman had changed his name to Bob Dylan because of his hero Dylan Thomas (maybe ‘Tambourine Man’ owes everything to Night Custard). And Dylan Thomas died in New York in the Chelsea Hotel. Whenever I make custard I think without thinking, image without imaging, a New York City now as lost as Atlantis; of Beat hotels and drunk poets and diamond voices as various as Andy Warhol and Patti Smith, Bob Dylan, Dylan Thomas and Kathy Acker . . . who
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