"The Voidoid was written in 1973 in a little furnished room on East 10th Street. I was staying down the block overlooking the graveyard at St Mark's Church. Every day I'd take a cheap bottle of wine with me across the street to the $16-a-week room I'd rented for writing. Sometimes afterwards if l had some extra money I'd go the pharmacy on Second Avenue and buy a bottle of codeine cough syrup and come back and lie on the cot again.

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