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Doctor Raft
I am deeply
impressed
with your photographs
of
and
your new home
in Montana
after
abandoning
a lifetime
of sunshine
in Florida
with
its 1001
tennis courts
But
what impressed me
more
were photographs
of you
wading
in the water,
fishing for trout
THEREFORE
I demand
you read
the book
I have sent
you
There are authors
to satisfy
every
literary
(or non-literary)
taste
people may have
BUT
only one author
can be recommended
to people
who
[for justifiable reasons]
no longer read
books
_____________
_________
is not
at the head
(or foot)
of the table
peopled by
the greatest writers
throughout history
Richard's imagination
is
under that table
tickling everyone
seated above
while they attempt
to do so
with a straight
face,
suppressing
laughter/tears/profundity
they
didn't know existed
Enjoy the gift
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I know it is not standard practice for a patient
ReplyDeleteto give his psychoanalyst advice
but exceptions can be made when
both were 12-year-old teammates
in a bowling league until the future patient
got caught cheating
-Oliverio
I remember the reading or was it the dreaming or maybe it was the pink elephant on that dot someone told me to put under my tongue.
ReplyDeleteTangential randomness, absurdness of the bean curd on a purple hazy twinkie. I love standing in the trout stream where i live watching for that rainbow or brown show his shadow and pitching that fly just past him and watching that indicator as it drift by. I love the sound of the water rushing slowly downstream and the trees cheering and the grasses dancing. Just need the river now and the dreams are sliding. Thanks for reminding me that being here in Rapid Creek doesnt need any explanation you just feel the water running by and everything makes sense.