April 25, 2019

KG red in the face with rage in class over what he calls an institution that wants his money and doesn’t care about anything else. I disagreed with him less than I would have at any other time in my life. Oddly, we were talking about Rilke’s Letters to a Young Poet. The question was, why do we encourage people who clearly have no talent? That was his answer. My answer is, because we can’t be sure. I don’t know what the university thinks.

Three cartons full of The Falls of the Wyona appeared on my porch. I was happy. The cats were ecstatic over the boxes. Boom they go jumping into them downstairs even now. Also appearing, about a ton of heliotrope seed. The world would be heliotropes if I got them all into the ground.