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[rayheinrich]

Very interesting picture, Ray, so desolate, so lonely...

It's always time to feed the cats, isn't it?  I like the way that bit of reality snaps us back from the abstract thoughts that preceded it.

The F-word twists the meaning of the line "any fucking thing I want" reflecting the anger of the writer.  (I hope you use Keith's suggestion to shorten that line.  Makes it more powerful.)

When you say "I'm free" in the last verse, I can feel the irony, and sadness,of that "freedom".

And then there's that picture-- a poem in itself.

Thanks Ray,
... Mark

I tried to take that suggestion, to eliminate the "to do"; but the pigpen editor fought me.
I re-entered that change three times and in return it inserted a duplicate of his remarks, it refused to touch
the damn "to do", and was overly obstinate about the bold flags.

I'm in San Francisco at the moment and I can only attribute this to some karmic deficit incurred by not
paying homage to Lawrence Ferlinghetti by neglecting to visit City Lights Books.

But whatever...

And yes, the cats are a welcome reality and that "I'm free" makes me cry every time I read it.

I guess it's that karma again; always hard to tell which way it's headed.