PENPAL LETTER # 5 — — —

MY BESTIE IS COOLER THAN YOURS

I am awestruck by the fact that, I am so lucky that, you are my new dear friend. . I truly feel, really feel that connection. A true Friend will meet you on a level playing field. Nobody is bigger and nobody is smaller. I am so impressed with you . You have no idea how you are opening up my world through our lively conversations and the spirit of friendship that we share. I feel like I’m writing better poetry these days. With you I’m able to just be myself without any stick whatsoever, you know where. I’m seeing things happening with our penpal correspondence and I’m loving it.
Woooo hoooo. You have created a monster. You told me it was okay to be myself. I feel like I should warn you of the impending danger. You told me I could be myself. You actually gave me permission. Be afraid, be very afraid.
I say whatever comes into my mind so watch out.
I’m sitting here talking to you on my hoity-toity microphone that makes me look like a big shot. I have Dragon voice recognition technology that prints everything I say almost perfectly. All I have to do is sit here and create poems, and it prints out on the computer screen. You’re in for it now Love. My words can come at you like a rapidfire Gatling gun. You can’t possibly keep up with me. I am like Superman sort of.I need to tell you something.
I have all the time in the world and it’s possible I might write you two or three times a day on email. I’m not sure whether it’s something I need for you to know or simply something I just have to say. I have a friend that I love very much that lives in Australia. I write to her any time my heart tells me to and I wouldn’t trade it for anything. She doesn’t write me back all the time. Sometimes I don’t hear from her for weeks but she’s always there and I know she’s my friend and i know she has my back and my best interests. I’ve just decided that sometimes I need to tell Colleen, my friend things. I know she’s going to read it and that’s all I want. Just an ear. Once in a while if I ask and sometimes when I don’t she gives me sage advice.I listen to her words intently because she’s very intelligent and she seen a lot of life. Colleen Millsteed is a person I’m proud to call my friend.
What I’m trying to say is love, don’t worry at all about replying to each and every thing I say to you. Just like in the poems you read on medium, just hit the highlights and don’t worry about writing me back and replying to each and everything I say to you. Although I do have to say I love it every time you do. Okay, so now that I’ve thoroughly convinced you that you should be hiding behind the couch because of my rapidfire words, I need to confess something else. I love to talk. I love to talk about life and art and music and serious things like that but once I get rolling, you can’t shut me up. I love to make up stories.Everybody around me realizes that and cuts me a break.I’m extremely hyperactive. If you like to talk a lot in emails and I like to talk a lot in emails, this is going to be really great. I don’t think important things can be said with a quick — “Hi, how you doing, zipity do da, wham bam, see you later alligator when your legs are straighter.” (Notice how I cleaned up the wham bam)
Not me Love. I’m gonna tell you so many things that your ears are going to start smoking. You’ll be begging for mercy. Please James, you’ll say, please , no more. (I think it’s cute that you want to call me James. No one has ever done that and it’s fine with me.) I think a friendship is a bit like a romance except a friendship is so less complicated because each friend brings such positive wonderful things to the table. You can have love for your friend and your friend can love you right back. It’s no threat to any other relationship around us. Of course just like anything else in life we must earn everything we get.
I so value our new friendship Love. I don’t want anything to harm it ever and if I tell you, I love you, please don’t be put off by that. I love you as a friend. I don’t mean it romantically, I mean it platonically. I promise you, Joan knows that I’m crazy and she will not boil your pet rabbit. But I want you to know, I value your friendship so much and I don’t want anything to ever happen to this precious gift. I hope we can stay in the honeymoon stage of our friendship forever. I’m so delighted to read everything that you say to me and I can’t wait to send a million things back. I know me well enough to say that always, I will feel like a puppy jumping up and down and peeing all over himself over our friendship. That’s how I am happy to see you my dear sweet friend. Now that I’ve explained myself I want to tell you that I love you so much and I’m so glad you came into my life .(Steady steady) .
We are going to have so much fun.I would really wish to be a gadfly on your wall to see how you took all of what I just said . .I sure hope it was well taken because I meant it that way
In your last letter, letter number four, you sent me something really beautiful. It was such a beautiful version of Hotel California made famous by the Eagles years ago. Except this version was something special. It was reimagined on a traditional Chinese musical instrument called a Guzheng and it’s played on YouTube by a musician named Moyun. What a beautiful find. Thank you Love . I played that on a loop for a very long time. It’s hypnotic and beautiful.
I found something to show you, that’s also beautifully different . A difference that I thought was also beautiful. I was reading one of Theodore McDowell’s beautiful poems called “Why I Write”, and he made a reference in his poem to the Japanese art of artistic pottery repair called Kentsugi . I looked that up immediately and found it extremely interesting. Kentsugi Pottery repairing is so fascinating because not only is it beautiful but it may be looked upon as a life lesson.
Oh, My God Love — — they just put on my newsfeed that they found the cure for sickle cell anemia. I’m so overcome very emotional right now. All I can think about is my friend Patty and how I hope and pray this could help her. When I think about all of the people suffering from sickle cell anemia and how they can be repaired — — -Isn’t this is a perfect example of how life can be repaired just like a piece of broken pottery and how it can be even made better and much more beautiful than before than before.

Getting back to the beautiful music of the gifted musician Moyun, I have listened so many times now and it’s beautiful . I put it on my Facebook page so I could click on it anytime I want. I even sent a copy to a couple of my friends. Moyun is so talented and what a beautiful sounding instrument he is playing. He moved his fingers so effortlessly it’s hard to believe that he’s actually playing this complicated instrument. I put this song on a continuous loop because it is so hypnotic and ethereal and still recognizable as a tune we all know and love. I wonder how well it would work for background music for a person was writing.I think it would work very well.

I too have something beautiful that I’d like to share with you Love . It is also a musical thing. I’d like to prove to you that I have class. You’re not the only one that knows how to keep an eye out for beautiful inspirational things. You know, this is the time of year when a lot of people celebrate Christmas. That’s right, I said “Christmas”. And who better to sing about the joys of the season then the lovely smoothe voice of Eric Idle, whom we all know and love. I hope you have some Kleenex’s because this is such a sentimental song that I know you’re going to cry.

Well, If you are offended, It’s your own fault. You said I could be myself and it’s too late to take it back. You really opened a can of worms.

Look at me Love — — -Being all festive and shit for Christmas . I hope you are not laughing too much. I don’t want you to bust a gut . . Kate really cracks me up though, when she talks about her fun bun and her stain gun. I mean for Pete’s sake we are all human beings and that stuff is funny if you have my sense of humor. I totally love Kate. She’s the one sitting there with her legs spread apart and talking about her grassy knoll and her gassy hole.

I would like to switch gears a little bit if I can do that Love. I wrote you recently that your husband might notice me writing to you and get jealous. I am so sorry that I touched on the sensitive issue accidentally. I didn’t know that he had passed away or I would not have been so flippant discussing him. Your husband seemed like a very impressive person and I would love to hear all about him. I sincerely apologize if that was offensive in any way.

I enjoy the pictures that you create and I understand what you mean about the picture and how it correlates with discovering new things that are positive and exciting. There is literally no end of the things we can discuss and I’m looking forward to every single one of those things. I’m like a child in a state of awe filled discovery, just like in camping. All of my camping experiences were so filled with bursts of joy when new things presented themselves. I am all about you and I having David Cerqueira join our conversation anytime. Welcome David, tell us a story.
Please do something for me love. Sometimes I don’t have a very good filter. There have been times that I said things I wish I could take back. I never say things to be mean, but I have been misinterpreted.I’m sorry to say I also am guilty of misinterpreting other people. However, since I have such a crappy filter, if you notice me going off on tangents that are weird or crazy or offensive, please tell me and I’ll knock it off.I have no idea how other people perceive me. I absolutely never ever ever will get offended by anything you say. I’ll cry uncontrollably for days at a time but I won’t be offended.
I would like to talk a little bit more about the musical instrument that is called a Guzheng. That is such a beautiful sounding instrument. I have Amazon prime music and I really hope I can find that music there. I want to make a playlist of music with only this instrument and make it very long so that I can play that music when I’m trying to write.
I’m going to do everything I can to not be offensive in any way to you or anybody. If I use such filthy vile language such as ka ka, or pee pee or poo poo, please know that I’m sorry about that.
Oh, I see you like to sleep in. How do you expect to get any work done sleeping until the crack of 4 am. Half of the day is gone by then. Your coffee sounds delicious. I love those creamers. Sometimes I put three or four packages in the coffee, and it would be like a coffee flavored milk shake, yummy.I bet Francisco Iglesias and you and I can sit and have one together someday. That would be great.
I look over your letter, your last letter to me, letter number four and I think to myself — — — I’m just going to ruin you. You are so sweet and delicate and feminine and all the good things, and here I am in no good potty mouth rubbing my influences off all over you and destroying your innocence. Please let me apologize in advance for what’s about to become of you, you poor innocent unsuspecting creature.
I know I go back and forth on being silly and then being serious and as you get to know me better you’ll know when I’m joking and when a deadly serious. Thank you for being my friend Love. I meant that so much. I eagerly made a proposal of friendship to you on bended knee. I have a few other friends and I bet if I asked him, they would give me a letter of recommendation. I swear I will do everything in my power to never make you unhappy with me. I hope I can always bring good things to you and I’m in total anticipation of everything you send my way. I will always be a good friend to you and I hope this beautiful thing lasts forever. I think a friendship proposal is a clean pure thing that can be a joy . I promise to be a faithful friend. I will never treat our friendship casually. I feel so lucky that you would give me your time and share your Your wonderful stories as well as your beautiful sentiments. Yes, I really meant that proposal of friendship. You have no idea how good your friendship feels inside of me right now. Quite frankly, I needed another friend really bad, and then along came you.It’s not that I don’t have friends because I do. But I seem to need a lot of contact to help keep me from going crazy.
Well, I’ve been writing often to you for the last five hours. This morning went by like wildfire. I started off thinking that you write letters with lots of words. I don’t think I should try to keep up with 2500 words, but if it happens, so be it. Although, right now love, I’m terrified to scroll up and see how long this is. Okay I just did, and without any reservations I am going to say
Holy Shit.
It’s not a race, I know it’s not a race to see who can write the most words or who can make another penpal letter the fastest. All I can say is — — — — this pen pal project is so much fun, and I’m not keeping score .I hope everybody joins in. I was going to take longerto write this, but I couldn’t stop myself. It’s your turn to write me love and it’s going to be letter number six and I can’t wait to see what you’re going to say. Before you go, would it be okay to ask you for a hug my dear friend.

Thank you, that was really nice.