Day Nine

The natives are restless...

Reading Wolfe


You can't go home again
at least, not according to Thomas Wolfe.
Who, incidentally, liked to look homeward a lot.

I've been to his house.
The tour guide said it was a good thing Wolfe didn't come home again.
Nobody liked the way they came out in the Angel book.

So, it was published posthumously
but by fate, not design.
Wolfe would have made a big mea culpa out of it.

Alive, I mean.

But if it were too little, too late, he's none the wiser.

He loved the idea of home a little more than the actual home, I think.