A billboard is going up Thursday in Times Square that will read, “I wish I had a d—k so I could tell the world to suck it.”
It’s a quote from “Dear Nobody: The True Diary of Mary Rose,” the “Go Ask Alice”-like diary of a girl from a troubled family in Pennsylvania who struggled with booze, drugs and loneliness before dying of cystic fibrosis at 17.
The editors are Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain, who had a bestseller 18 years ago with “Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk.”
Mary Rose’s father, who left when she was an infant and never paid child support, held up the book’s publication for five years before a judge removed him as a beneficiary of her estate.
“This book is as ugly as it comes,” said McCain, “and that’s why we did it.”