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hello Digby please mr. Blake thank you

hello diggers yes I just got it well I

don't know well you know you really

ought to be able to handle this on your

own

don't you think diggers look Oh buddy

I'm having a nice time yeah for a little

poetry a little plumbing you know the

good things in life what what diggers

I'm not coming to the meeting that would

tell him what you like tell him I fell

off a ferry a ferryboat and look stop

trying to box me maybe a week ten days I

don't know yeah and Digby please don't

call me here again

after the phone call Charlie bought a $4

airplane and dedicated himself to its

freedom the policeman was of course

quite correct flying an aeroplane off

the Brooklyn Bridge is very much against

the law

I think I will do my first poem about

the airplane and not the ferry

a poem by Charles Blake

I shot a plane into the air it struck

Manhattan over there I got a ticket but

I don't care I'd do it again is that

wrong

yes oh it's lovely charlie it's really

very very nice and it rhymes almost all

the way through you done like no yes I

just I had up with something a little

more dramatic okay I'll put it with the

others I have thought by now you would

be finished with the wisenheimer poems

and be really involved in the lovely

sweet romantic poems otherwise you see

Alonzo will never be able to get them

published I understand you are a good

sport though Charlie you are you take

criticism so well do much better than I

ever expected you can tell a person by

the way he takes criticism more blue sir

more blue now Sarah the sky is blue

right it's very good Charlie that's very

fine but a brick wall is red oh that's a

brick wall no one writes no ham while

playing in the sky Charlie oh I guess

not no hmm brick wall a real brick wall

mm-hmm well it's a very effective sign

darling I mean you don't see anybody

playing handball up there do you hmm

well you've got plenty of red paint

now where's that bicycle tape I gotta

make a call

where the West 54th Street apartment the

TV picture is rolling can you handle

that by yourself huh can you handle that

by yourself I handled the last Express

no jobs free night well you better take

a TV tube tester but you say the West

54th Street apartment that's Henry

Jensen that's right now what do I charge

it oh no there is no charge there here's

a year's guarantee an 85 year old TV set

and you gave him a guarantee as he got a

contract

my word is my bond Charlie I run a

legitimate repair service where is the

bicycle tape you'll have it charlie you

have it you have it's there it's okay

that's extra you charge extra for that

$1 a foot

I promise I'll use as much as I can

oh that's good hello but that's Alonzo

it's going to bring me some new cameras

no it's no excuse what you gain weight

you know a couple of this is so much I

would ask you you're kind of jumping

you're month aren't you fella oh sorry

this is Clem I told you about Clem tell

me what have you been doing with

yourself well it's a very long story

Oh we'd love to hear it Oh Charlie I'm

sorry Charles Blake planned batchman

Charlie pleased to meet you is that a

fact oh sure you are so rude

what am I supposed to do I don't know

this guy listen this guy used hey I

still have all of your paintings they're

all framed did you ever have that

exhibition of my works yeah well no but

we came close very close

pardon me you painted when you were here

mm-hmm

what's your therapy me Oh

I write poetry oh very nice you maybe

you can get published yes we seem to

share the same agent mr. Alonzo here he

represents me - oh well you're in good

hands we could possibly have a joint

exhibition your paintings my poetry bill

Shakespeare's plays Pete Tchaikovsky's

music then where are you staying the

hotel Oh Chuck I'm you

yeah you can try well I'm only here for

a few days

yeah maybe a week I've got a surprise

for you oh you shouldn't pay well you

can't stay at a hotel that's all over so

that will certainly have to make some

sort of arrangement some women hold it

hold it I feel I must point out that

November happens to be my month now

where I do not wish to appear

unreasonable or inhospitable Clem knows

the rules joy yes but when Richard

wanted to return you disallowed him how

come them when we are all familiar with

the established precedence how come

Captain America here is allowed visiting

privileges you must trust me to make the

correct decisions charlie

in the meantime since you are in such an

ungentlemanly snit I suggest that you

run along and make your service call

well maybe I'd better go the guy's got a

point Sarah and it is his month no I'll

make the call the man has a contract

he's entitled to service as for my

poetry it is not for publication no

Charlie I'm ugly your insidious little

game trying to convert people to

vegetarian charlie listen Sarah people

are not born to vegetarianism you know

it takes missionaries like him to

convert them and as for you sir be

advised that I'm a first-class judo

expert and if you are still here on my

return I will probably strangle you with

my black belt use espresso grounds it's

a TV service call well then take the

bicycle tape it's $1 a foot

as Charlie later found out purpose of

Graham's visit was to tell me that he

finally quit hiding in college and to

introduce his fiancee Carol a very

lovely girl

Charlie is really very warm and clever

and dear he apologized to everyone for

his immature outburst and must surely

realize that if he keeps up that kind of

behavior he will always be Pinocchio and

never a real boy

hey what when am I gonna hear it here

what your new poem you can't still be

working on it

I finished it three days ago oh joy I've

been carrying it around in my pocket

hoping it would fall out were you so

afraid to read it to me

uh-huh Charlie you'll just have to face

up to it sooner or later

I know I know all right all right all

right now look empty your pockets right

be home

yeah here we are I call it enigma okay

that's something that's difficult to

figure out okay good now go on enigma by

Charles Blake a girl I know she is

partly math yet beyond that smile she is

partly sad she is badly calm she is

partly wild but she is mostly woman no

she is mostly child

I thank you Charlie Oh Charlie you like

it I like it I like it I like it and it

rhymes Charlie you're broken through and

it rhymes it's a love poem Sarah love

poems don't have to rhyme you want

rhymes Jack be nimble rhymes ah but it's

not about me I know how hard it's been

for you Charlie all these years hiding

behind blank verse I know

well it's nice to achieve recognition in

one's own lifetime

Charlie I will I will keep it always and

you wanted it to fall out of your

pockets you should be ashamed of

yourself shame I must have been mad

dearest Sarah my every thought is of you

you're looking tired

if I hope to fret about you please let

me know I think I might very much like

the worry

perhaps instead of all those pills

perhaps some vitamins with liver extract

surely Alonso can't objected that I

cannot face the fact that I must some

day give you up I should never have

agreed to a 30-day month what are you

doing I'm being blinded what are you

doing down there

I was just checking Sara I I thought I

heard somebody creeping about it was me

what are you doing with my calendar

calendar what calendar you would just

like a little boy caught with his hand

in the cookie jar

honestly Sara with three extra days hurt

you I mean they're right in the middle

of the month and even fifth 15 16 and 17

I mean they're hardly noticeable a

little bit of tape look finger that back

three days Sara that's all that tape is

a dollar of what money is no object Sara

bill me I love those days then you may

keep them but you may not put them back

I don't