Letters to Yesenin by Jim Harrison

Author:Jim Harrison
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press

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Naturally we would prefer seven epiphanies a day and an earth

not so apparently devoid of angels. We become very tired with

pretending we like to earn a living, with the ordinary objects and

events of our lives. What a beautiful toothbrush. How wonderful

to work overtime. What a nice cold we have to go with the cold

crabbed spring. How fun to have no money at all. This thin soup

tastes great. I’m learning something every morning from cheap wine

hangovers. These rejection slips are making me a bigger person.

The mailbox is always so empty let’s paint it pink. It’s good for

my soul that she prefers to screw another. Our cat’s right eyeball

became ulcerated and had to be pulled but she’s the same old cat.

I can’t pay my taxes and will be sent to prison but it will probably

be a good experience. That rattlesnake striking at dog and daughter

was interesting. How it writhed beautifully with its head cut

off and dog and daughter were tugging at it. How purging to lose

our last twenty dollars in a crap game. Seven come eleven indeed.

But what grand songs you made out of an awful life though you had

no faith that less was more, that there was some golden splendor

in humiliation. After all those poems you were declared a coward

and a parasite. Mayakovsky hissed in public over your corpse and

work only to take his own life a little while later. Meanwhile

back in America Crane had his Guggenheim year and technically jumped

ship. Had he been seven hundred feet tall he would have been OK.

I suspect you would have been the kind of friends you both needed

so badly. So many husbands have little time for their homosexual

friends. But we should never imagine we love this daily plate of shit.

The horses in the yard bite and chase each other. I’ll make a carol

of my dream: carried in a litter by lovely women, a 20 lb. bag of cocaine,

angels shedding tunics in my path, all dead friends come to life again.

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