Saturday, July 4, 2009

The Star-Spangled Banner

The day before I left, the Poet wrote me an email:

I thank you. For a nice day? For a lot more. This spring, you helped me understand and change my life. This sounds terribly heavy (těžkotonážně: heavy, in an industrial sense, like a heavy-duty dump truck), but it is true – a heavy-duty truth. It’s too bad you weren’t here longer… Strasbourg, Mníšek, St. Petersburg – It was and will remain a swamp!

I believe you will do well for yourself. Don’t let anything limit or manipulate you and it will be so.

Today I am going to a starchy Fourth of July barbeque, bearing lemonade and a creamy cucumber salad. Tomorrow: yoga. The moon the day after that!



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