To
Kathy Grimes
Roy Buchanan
and my cats, Felix and Emily
who have all entered the old silence
No orchard's the worse for the wintriest storm;
But one thing about it, it mustn't get warm.
"How often already you've had to be told,
Keep cold, young orchard.
Good-bye and keep cold.
Dread fifty above more than fifty below."
I have to be gone for a season or so.
– Robert Frost
Once born you're addicted
And so you depict it
As good, but who kicked it?
– Richard Hell