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(5) FOOLKILLERS in one mailing - have to figure five persons worthy to receive it - all my | (5) FOOLKILLERS in one mailing - have to figure five persons worthy to receive it - all my | ||
friends are dying off - A scary feeling - I may be next. | friends are dying off - A scary feeling - I may be next. | ||
Like summer today - | Like summer today - 75º - and the other day it was nearer 20º ?! Still have my long-johns on. | ||
long-johns on. Rather sweat than freeze. | Rather sweat than freeze. | ||
Sent some samples of my writing to MODERN MATURITY and got a form-printed Rejection - | Sent some samples of my writing to MODERN MATURITY and got a form-printed Rejection - | ||
they evidently didn't even read the stuff - want to keep the Retirees alike as two peas - phooie. | they evidently didn't even read the stuff - want to keep the Retirees alike as two peas - phooie. | ||
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in pencil Rogers, Jack
27 Nov. 1976
Jack oboy oboy:
Sent letter to H.H. Lewis, the cowflop poet of the Gumbo - didn't realize he was that old, but
I'm almost 70 so who am I to talk?! Yes, I thot [sic] the Patty Hearst pome [sic] was Okeh as well as the piece about Lewis. Liked yours about old Benton - he was a great one, he was altho I might not agree with ALL of his art, he did a fine job. Received underline five /underline (5) FOOLKILLERS in one mailing - have to figure five persons worthy to receive it - all my friends are dying off - A scary feeling - I may be next.
Like summer today - 75º - and the other day it was nearer 20º ?! Still have my long-johns on. Rather sweat than freeze. Sent some samples of my writing to MODERN MATURITY and got a form-printed Rejection -
they evidently didn't even read the stuff - want to keep the Retirees alike as two peas - phooie. Ought to have a Radical group of Retirees, say you not so? Run the AARP like the American Legion, they do.
Dee Brown griping because they picked Saul Bellow for Nobel Prize - says we must be becoming
illiterate country - So we must. Salud! Jack II. on side Saw a letter in the press signed by Bellow, Mailer etc. wanted to answer it but didn't. Bunch of comedians, as you once wrote.