5317. CURTAINS

CURTAINS

But all very nice nonetheless : 'Dear Marlon, I can't

pretend that it is easy or simple to write to you. A great

theater must have an open door through which Life

flows through freely, like a stream.' And don't forget

to remember what I said. Two sandwiches and a drink.

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I need two pass-keys for the other door.

'I'm very proud of what I've done.'

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This Poetry stuff runs derelict, with a few heartthrobs

and a dozen drunks making it go : look at it all right

now; people sitting around five beers later, looking

faint and twisted, trying to understand what they're

trying to say. 'Edgar Allen Poe kept his head down,

too much, as it were  -  all that ersatz mystery stuff

that wasn't really any mystery at all. And then he

died, found on some sodden Baltimore street was it?'

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I need two pass-keys for the other door.

'I'm very proud of what I've done.'

Two sandwiches and a drink.