6/21/2023 0 Comments Letters of note by shaun usher![]() ![]() You have experienced becoming, learned a lot more about what’s inside you, and you have made your soul grow. You will find that you have already been gloriously rewarded for your poem. ![]() ![]() Tear it up into teeny-weeny pieces, and discard them into widely separated trash recepticals. Don’t show it or recite it to anybody, not even your girlfriend or parents or whatever, or Ms. But don’t tell anybody what you’re doing. Lockwood will flunk you if you don’t do it: Write a six line poem, about anything, but rhymed. Here’s an assignment for tonight, and I hope Ms. Dance home after school, and sing in the shower and on and on. Seriously! I mean starting right now, do art and do it for the rest of your lives. What I had to say to you, moreover, would not take long, to wit: Practice any art, music, singing, dancing, acting, drawing, painting, sculpting, poetry, fiction, essays, reportage, no matter how well or badly, not to get money and fame, but to experience becoming, to find out what’s inside you, to make your soul grow. I don’t make public appearances any more because I now resemble nothing so much as an iguana. ![]() You sure know how to cheer up a really old geezer (84) in his sunset years. spectacular collection of more than 125 letters offers a never. Lockwood, and Messrs Perin, McFeely, Batten, Maurer and Congiusta: Author : Shaun Usher Pages : 352 pages Publisher : Chronicle Books. ![]()
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