That's Johnny reading his poignant story "Mother of God" last night at the Bowery Poetry Club as part of the NY Poets Series. It's really NY Friends": not only poets. "Mother of God" is his riff on Chekhov's "Misery," set in the early days of the AIDS crisis in New York and featuring an unsympathetic Archie Bunker-type that you can't help caring about, despite how wrong he is about "homo-sexuals" in general and his son in particular, who he loves but doesn't understand. Johnny has had it hard for so many years now; it was wonderful to see him struggle & shine.