Ray

XLVII

I HAVE talked of pornography and medicine and love of art — which is Mr. Hooch’s poems.

Many friends around.

And I work here and crank up the bodies that are slow.

Westy has gotten so absorbed by inflation and her stepchildren that she does not raise her happy irises to me anymore. She cleans the clothes and makes suppers and if she is not a lesbian, then what is she?

I am drinking five bottles of wine a day just to stay cool. Looking forward to the football at Alabama. I’m not going crazy and am not violent. I could play better tennis if my habit on nicotine would give up. I roam in the past for my best mind.