Arnon Grunberg

Word

Exuberant

A poem by M Hofmann in NYRB, to the memory of Charles Simic :

'I wrote an exuberant—
no, really!—e-mail yesterday
to my kind and illustrious

(or at least respectable) friends
who put in a good word for me
with the authorities:

my Green Card has come.
The e-mail to you
was said to be undeliverable;'

Read the rest of the poem here.

I remember when I thanked my friends and acquaintances who put in a good word for me with the authorities.
I believe they are all still alive, but I lost track of a few of them.

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