some notes: buy morning shoes in the morning
and evening shoes in the evening: okay, so
sure, fill the veins with ore, but let them
be the veins of butterfly wings, lest the fill
sink like pig iron: for it must be remembered
the weightier matters are given to butterflies to
fly away with: pitch the lighter problems to
the pigs, they make a wallowing mud of them,
just as people might lack a substantive medium
without their little worries and remedies:
(this note is turning into a dissertation):
a further note: ’twere foolish to be foolish
and wise to be wise (although, I suppose, it
were sometimes wise to be foolish and foolish
to be wise): one last (or still further) note:
soil sticks thinly to the slated hillsides
around here, and rain, when it rains, and it
sure has rained this spring and summer, along with
even moderate winds, the roots of tall spruce
wobble in their sockets, the grasp so slight,
and the trees lean toward the roofs, a pity,
the electrical wires could come down with the
trees and shingles and timbers could fly: it
is better to rent, except then you never get
your roots down and a little blowoff is all
you could need to move you away: last note:
elephants live a whale of a long time.…
OFF AGAIN