APRIL 9, 1980

Michelle calls from Indiana to say hello and inquire as to my mental health. We laugh and screech at each other about how sane we are. Then she says she read the poems I sent and she had one question for me: “Do you have a lover?” I said yes and she screamed. “Well,” she said, once we stopped laughing, “I guess if I had gotten divorced in the eighties, I’d have a lover, too.”