THis is undoubtably the same man but he did not claim that he wrote it, my friend made the claim for him. He himself said something that had to do with his relationship with Bess Hawes but I just can't recall what it was. I also can't ask my friend who had an untimely death a few years later.

The best that I can do is say that there is an alley across from City Lights Bookstore in North Beach and at the end of the alley is the bar where this guy worked fifteen years ago. Whether he is there today, I haven't a clue but I may take a trip down there just to satisfy my curiousity.

I wish I could be more helpful.

Sourdough