Thanks Lanny. Nice to know you're one of the mates! Hope to meet soon (and with compassion, or, one hopes, good sense). Beijing, Bookworm, next Tuesday, come see a group of open poets talk about life, disagree and agree, and build dignified community - still, thank goodness, worth something. There will be all kinds of folk, speaking many languages, knowing one, hard-faught, in particular, but not you (alas - shame). Friends are important, really. And when you sit down on the floor, sharing their company, among friends one does feel, as you know, less alone. Must wonder what it's like when they go? I always felt this way after first kind smile and open shake of introduction - as if one'd stubbled to place remotely realizing sense down home feeling.
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