You wouldn't know unless I said
: : Golly, love you ran across my mind again and left your beautiful footprints
“I believe in all that is unspoken.” Rainer Maria Rilke
he liked Rilkes poetics
though he didnt
read him enough to . . to challenge him . . . challenging is probablyNo its the right word his sensibilities took issue with the word “believe”
I believe
I think
I know
believe is the least physical of
the three the weakest
he texted his girlfriend : : . .
. you wouldn’t know unless I said
hed rather commit words
to paper
on paper in his hand words are decisive declarative
they are less likely to be
twisted out of shape or tortured defied
attempts to subvertchange the context they were used in
when he was younger he wrote
incessantly sixseven letters a week
in the few letters he received
back he found his wordswhat he said were often taken out of context so often in fact that he began writing with
carbons and mimeographing his letters so when he received return letters he
correctedcombated their disinformation dysfunction
sometimes his replies cited entire
paragraphs
perhaps they didnt think hed be
so thorough with his casual daily correspondences
out of sight out of mind he minded
Who does that? they wrote
he did
THAT was his nature
it was apparentevident one shouldnt get on the wrong side of him
he had a short fuse
whether in a letter or in person
1220, Twosday,
17 9. 19
1519, Friday,
15 11. 19
The Box Tops The Letter
https://www.youtube.co+m/watch?v=HIWY8UyW9bw
