mem (10/23/82)
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I've gotten mail, and I guess I ought to make this statement. It
didn't occur to me how similar the names "Merrit Malloy" and
"Mark Mallett" are, but it did seem to strike some folks out there.
Believe me, there is no correspondence whatsoever.
Now that I've said that, I ought to include another MM poem...
I found your jeans today...
...In the box with the Christmas lights
And old feelings
Came like parachutes
To rest me on the basement floor...
You know... I really liked you
I think you were the best playmate
I've ever had...
Even now...
I have some plans...left over
Like your jeans
That would only fit on you...
- Merrit Malloy
The three Malloy poems that I submitted were all from the same book,
"Thinks I meant to say to you when we were old", 1977, from Doubleday.
Mark Mallett