Revisions of Letters Already Sent

PLEASE DELETE WHERE INDICATED

The finitude of never is a tough nut to crack.

I study the face of stones. I dial direct

to

please plead, you said, joking,

as we closed our eyes and

You should design a candlestick for candles

that are to be burned at both

we could, you said, unfairly I thought, use it as

a catapult.

or, again, if your heart isn’t in it, said the cannibal

to the (blank?), why eat the goulash?

in its later stages the lover, like the dinosaur

in earlier times, not noticing the approach of the

Hockey Night in Canaan. But you promised

please insert, where indicated

or metaphor, seeking stolid immunity

under the law of

ceremonies of desire forfended(?) by the hand,

crow eating crow, the clench of cheese

cauliflower comes to mind, the insides of an egg (roll),

the guts on the windshield, emphysema, hay fever

Melopeia, you may recall, is the word Ezra employs,

on his ABC

surely the invention of the apple did much to undo

what I still desire to call

grammar itself serves you as a kind of jealous garment

that prevents me from

It strikes me that I owe you a dinner.