Hemingway went on safari
and wrote a book about it.
With Pauline. He later went
on safari with Mary and got a concussion
in a plane wreck. He drank afterwards.
This may have been what happened to
his health. Bruno Ganz says the secret of
success is talent and hard work. "People
do you favors, of course." That is, there is
luck. Or lack of luck. Bad karma.
A shitty attitude. Do we cause
our own misfortune?
Probably. But
so what?
I spring to the easel of a morning.
I read Green Hills of Africa.
I wait for the phone to ring.
I check my email. I wait for
the postal-person lady.
I dangle. One dangles.

I get mail from
Blaster Al. What to
make of it? What to do?
Write back. Keep the circulation.
It's a closed system. But with a feedback loop.
A tank circuit resonates. Dip the plate and max the grid.
I was once the government inspector. I initialed meter readings.