By Robert Creeley
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E. , i'm consuming, in truth, far better than I did there—thinking of these nightmare nutrients. a tender woman all yet proposed to me, if it’s my destiny that’s the matter. i locate my head packed with all its outdated tips, and so forth. And the excitement of Olson, Dan Rice, et al, has been as tangible as any i would wish for. Then I wrote to the lady in manhattan, whom i believe I informed you approximately, i. e. , the ‘witch’, John was once in love along with her too at one time—and after now not having written me when you consider that I final observed her in manhattan, this time she did, in spite of a (goddamnit) gorgeous poem, in Spanish, approximately driving a donkey in the course of the corn, and so forth. good, you recognize. I should still eventually like, get pleasure from, think in, whatever greatly like that. My loneliness isn't any factor I care to maintain, yet to betray its fact is anything i will not do. To have lived in a home with a girl as faraway from me as Ann was—that used to be and will be now no sturdy. So i've got taken the lead, like they are saying, and commenced to determine a couple of divorce myself. i believe she's going to be prepared to pay for it—we will all ‘pay’ for it. Wow. What I don’t say right here, is my fears for the kids; but i have to belief to her, and what else she is, in that. and also you besides, i. e. , as you had reassured me, that they're going to recognize me, nonetheless. And, that for me to take carry will permit them a father they could differently no longer have had. in order that is ‘work’ sufficient, and desire adequate too. Too—I observed Dan, within the sanatorium after the coincidence, nonetheless in a lot discomfort, being fed intravenously along with his abdominal being rattling good pumped out on the comparable time,—I watched him desire, actually together with his eyes, that Cynthia (now in long island) could ship him a few notice, at the least, whether she couldn’t come. no longer a goddamn sound. So i've been spared that demise, not less than for the time-being. i used to be now not hit whilst i couldn't hold upright. Olson says, rightly adequate, we will neither search for fairness nor generosity, in a girl, i. e. , they don't seem to be possessed by means of this stuff. The ‘loveliness’ of Ann, in these tales, was once additionally one other part, i assume. it'd be very pompous to think about, now, even that whatever had long past ‘wrong’. God, to profit how to not ‘possess’; that ownership is usually, should be, a seizure, an act we realize by way of in simple terms that truth we're its finish. I research it a bit, i'm hoping to god I do. So—let that each one opt for the instant. i've got had a number of tests on your booklet, one from Ruth Witt-Diamant and one other from a woman whose identify I disregard (I am penning this from Jonathan’s, the place I’m staying (very very easily) for a number of days), amounting to $20 which i've got forwarded to Ann’s account; and feature additionally written her to invite her to offer you a payment or pesetas for the am’t. Then a number of days in the past, more cash ($24) from Ida Hodes, being a suite from numerous humans (Moore, Carmody, Onslow-Ford, Helen Adam, Schaenman, Psaltis)—I’ll ship this to Ann’s acc’t too. And get you a be aware of the opposite woman’s identify, really Ann could have it. The assertion is a true lulu—very rattling stable. I tacked it up at the board, and everybody favourite it highly.