Dear Bella Levenshteyn
Do you ever have one of those days
When you swing from wanting
One thing to another
Days like I seem to have with such frequency
I know for sure I’m meshugah
One hour I want to read the collected works of I.B. Singer
In the original Yiddish
The next hour I want to give 20 hours a week
To helping the refugees with their English
Then later in the day thinking of our friends who spoke on mindfulness
I know I should meditate 4 hours a day
By the next morning my mind is made up
“I vant to be alone!”
But by noon
I declare: “I want to be with others!”
It seems I vacillate about everything
Except you
–from novel-in-progress, Our Heroic and Ceaseless 24/7 Struggle against Tsuris
