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Letters Home

Dear Connie,
I’m sending you a poem Tim wrote for

your paper but realize this created a
problem for you. I told him last summer

SAPPHICS AGAINST ALCOHOL

Stricken, may I be near a glass of iron;
May my second impulse be to think of Drowning,

H DOM N9, now our  apparel ‘fa

that you and Sallie were gay. I decided to
start with someone I was sure would not be
bothered by knowing. At that time he said
he wanted to write something for your
paper. This week he brought me the
enclosed poem. As with all good poetry,
I’m sure each person who reads it will
interpret it differently. When I read the
OITM issue you sent, I saw the box saying
you didn't print poetry. Hence the problem.
Is there another publication you have where
you could use it? It really is a very nice

- Tim Craig

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gift from a poet known throughout the
United States and England....

Love Mom
Dear Mom:

Thanks for your letter and Tim's poem.
I'm touched to know he set out to write
something just for our paper. We decided
to temporarily waive our editorial policy...

Love Connie.

To Asia, that dumb sunofabitch did to his liver."

May I, in other words, put strength to good purpose,

Its several legends (does one’s "whole life''

Reappear, etc.).

May I recall what Aristotle says of

The Subject: to give vent to fear or passion is not

Mindful that melancholy, though more modish than
Ever, is sinful,

As is the continual pouring of one’s love into

An inappropriate vessel, however gorgeous. Better
Far the dear remembrance of the future’s alliance, the

To release them but to be progressively subject

To their visitations.

May I fancy a sojourn in the Inferno,
Hearing it asked: "Virgilio mio, who’s

That weeping there with Achilles?" and hearing

Virgil say: "Dante,

That poor fellow, insupportably driven by his own ghost,
Swallowed Niagaras of spirits and drove his motorcar

Into Sycamores.
What Tojo did



What Hitler did to Europe,

Perfect enjoyment.

 

 

mama‘