Just warming up to this conversation of literature, exploring story and song with artists at MIC/A (Maryland Inst., College of Art) and singing often and performing occasionally, including a couple of reunions that Matt Toll drove from 8 to 2AM and (that was when Obama came in) quitting nicotine at last and learning squash and trying to keep up with Russell (a freshman at UVM) and a bit more about how to:

find that Bflat minor in "Lay Lady Lay" AND Josh Ritter's "Kathleen" and even jump to the B section of Al Green's Take Me to the River.

show some gratefulness that Melissa's stuck with me through many fetes and a little too much intemperance

Was that a red-light camera?

Drive, without too much grief, and now, with 11th-hour exemplariness, our freshwoman volleyball- playing fashionista, MaryLouise, wherever she indicates: dances, matches, parties, even the MALL ( but I won't go in)

stack the woodpile a little more neatly, chopping just a little smaller now,

And today, back from the Smith College booksale in Baltimore, I delight in cataloging Edward Lear's Owl and the Pussycat, in French (LE HIBOU ET LA POUSSIQUETTE) and … here's what I got to write as I sang… Lucky me… Very good cloth hardcover, in fair, edgeworn, clipped pictorial dustjacket. Except for a small gift inscription at half-title, No reader's or remainder or ex-library marks. First ed. first printing 1961. Delightfully illustrated throughout by B. CLOONEY. In French, with glossary for those who know Lear's English version. Runcible spoon, alas, has had to be rendered "une cuillere peu commune"... but it rhymes and it scans."