<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">For/From Lew Welch<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Lew Welch just turned up one day,</span><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">live as you and me. "Damn, Lew" I said,</span><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">"you didn't shoot yourself after all."</span><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">"Yes I did" he said,</span><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">and even then I felt the tingling down my back.</span><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">"Yes you did, too" I said—"I can feel it now."</span><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">"Yeah" he said,</span><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">"There's a basic fear between your world and</span><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">mine. I don't know why.</span><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">What I came to say was,</span><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">teach the children about the cycles.</span><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">The life cycles. All other cycles.</span><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">That’s what it's all about, and it's all forgot."</span><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""></div><div class=""><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- Gary Snyder</span></div></body></html>