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So here's a couple of other
brief poems that I wrote.

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I edit a magazine
called The Sixties.

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Remarkable, and it
never comes out.

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Unique in American literature
for that-- in that way.

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But it's a lot of
work to bring out

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a magazine, especially when I
write most of the prose myself.

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And mainly because I
can't afford really

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to pay other people to do it.

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And besides, I don't
like the way they do it.

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So anyway, so the
result is that you

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get lots of poems in the mail.

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And I send the poems back
about one day a month or so.

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It's the most marvelous
day of the month

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because you have no idea the
strange things that people

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put into poems and send you
from all parts of the country.

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So I've had an incredible
array of visitors.

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Anyway, but it happens that you
get in a lot of correspondences

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that you don't answer.

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And I saw all sorts of
unanswered letters lying around

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one day and got depressed,
and I wrote this little poem,

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"Unanswered Letter."

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"Strips of August sun
come in through shutters.

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Baskets of unanswered
letters lie on chair.

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Some foolish man
must live here."

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