November 25, 1968, Cleveland Press

-- by Bill Kjellstrand

….. a success of an underground newspaper. He had tried several times, mimeographed affairs containing obscure messages. He latest effort was entitled "Buddhist Third-Class Junk Mail Oracle."

Levy, who attended Rhodes High School, did not appear to be much of a poet, no threat to literature’s immortals. His work was generally sprinkled with what more conservative members of society called smut – obscenities – filth.

He was arrested more than once for uttering and publishing such matter, for exposing juvenile teen-boppers to his questionable gems. He was under the indictment on obscenity charges at one time, but the matter was dropped.

GOOD POET OR BAD, Levy was defended vigorously by many who felt that he was being made the target of censorship, that freedom of speech and the press were involved.

Be that as it may, Malone said, Levy for the past 5 years had never made more than $7 or $8 a week from his writings.

"What bothered him most was that his words fell on deaf ears," Malone said. "He could not get across to anybody the injustices he saw."

Then last week Levy’s common-law wife walked out on him and that heaped one last lower-case burden on his frail back. Friends hadn’t seen him for several days. They prevailed upon his landlady to open his locked door last night. And he was found.

"When I heard about it I went to the lakefront," Malone said. "I looked out at the water for a long time and saw that Levy was like the lake – banging away at the breakwall."

Levy had one little secret hobby. Against all the rules of conformity though he was, he spent quite a bit of time on an ordinary little stamp collection.