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A Romance
Cartoon By James Thornton
With regards to changing the title from “That Very Special Romance” to “A Romance” I must raise the following objections and make the following suggestions. 1. My title has a certain acerbic irony not present in the truncated (emasculated?) form. The fact is there was nothing particularly romantic about my relationship with the little trollop.
August 1978
Sy Safransky's Notebook
Five Poems
I want to love loneliness / the way I love you. I want / to enter it and twist up its / hair in my fist.
August 1978
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Sunbeams
August 1978One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.
Sy Safransky's Notebook
February 1978
We are free to do most anything, yet, understanding so little about freedom, we confuse it with license, as we confuse living with style.
February 1978
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