By Marke B.
Poet and punk hero Jim Carroll, (August 1, 1950 – September 11, 2009)
From Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain’s Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk (Penguin, 1996):
Jim Carroll: I was at the Mabuhay Gardens, which was like the CBGB’s of San Francisco, and I was trying to hit on one of the Go-Go’s. I had this really good coke, so I’m doling out some lines in the manager’s office, and we’re doing some and then all of a sudden Nico comes in.
She sees the coke and says, “Is that cocaine?” Then she says, “Oh, you are Szhim Carroll. I read about you. You are so skinny, I am so fat.”
She was really large and she looked pretty bad. I said, “You sounded great. Here, have some coke.”
She was really thankful. She said, “Oh, this is very good coke.”
I said, “Thanks. Coming from you that’s a real compliment.” Hahaha.