Marie, Lafcadio, & Kate Orlovsky. Sister brother and mother to Peter Orlovsky, December 27, 1989.
Visiting Peter’s family -- Lafcadio age 49 had lived with us in San Francisco--N.Y. 1955-1961 & later intermittent years; mother Kate Orlovsky age 80 totally deaf after botched mastoid operation N.Y. Eye & Ear Hospital circa 1930's; Laff's twin sister Marie who'd lived with me & Peter O. in Lower East Side 1959 while she attended baby nurse school in Jersey -- but quit jobs soon after, angry at hearing voices' filthy gossip behind her back. Center Moriches Long Island, their second floor flat on lonely road, they need taxi to supermarket shopping December 27, 1989 [Photo & Caption: Allen Ginsberg, courtesy Stanford University Libraries / Allen Ginsberg Estate]














