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Friday, March 16, 1928

to C.M.H.

With you we spend 5 hours of the week
Supposed to make us gain that lengthy path 
Of education, and we never speak [[strikethrough]] to [[/strikethrough]]
to one another [[strikethrough]] neighboring students [[/strikethrough]], for this class is Math –
For sixty minutes long all this [[strikethrough]] class [[/strikethrough]] goes on, 
And if we find a problem we can't do, 
Involving Theorem 4, a polygon, 
And square – Then desparately we raise our hands for you –
Eventually you come, but never pay 
Attention to [[strikethrough]] our pleas [[/strikethrough]] the math. You simply [[strikethrough]] reap pound [[/strikethrough]] hit 
[[strikethrough]] From everones [[/strikethrough]] nearly on the desk, then walk away, 
And leave us sadly, floundering on it.
And then you give [[strikethrough]] us [[/strikethrough]] what you [[strikethrough]] have call [[/strikethrough]] termed a simple test –
Which even Ann & Henry flunk, as do the rest.


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[[strikethrough]] Saturday, March 17, 1928 [[/strikethrough]] 
May 14, 1930

Let me know each climactic phase
of life.  Let me find wondrous days,
[[strikethrough]] and [[/strikethrough]] ripe and orange mellow moons,
And melting rays of afternoons,
And days when there has been a tryst
Of wind and rain, and nights with mist
And grey.  Let me find pure white snow,
Cold and severe, then let me know
The intense heat from brazen suns in some far Southern land.

Let me find agonizing pain
And suffering, then as cool rain
Let me find deep peace at its end.
Let me know one lasting friend,
And know one person truly great,
Another to sincerely hate,
An enemy who'll hate me, too,
And then one simple person who
Can really love, and listening to my heart [[strikethrough]] can [[/strikethrough]] will understand.

Oh let me be most greyly sad,
Let me exalt in being glad, 
Escape with dreams & fantasy,
Meet starkness of Reality
Be discontent, be satisfied, 
Have failed my goal, then realized
It too, Find both content and strife –