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We've asked I'm sure--straight out or implied-"is it this man, or that meter", we follow, apply. We, cutting corners to knowledge, at least the sub-consciousaim, and he says he's not certain, but, "I'Il see if I can find out". He provides us with pages all blank but for titles. If we're smart, we'll know it's our turn to work. It's our choice and he purifies the freedom to do the choosing. This freedom is woven with patterns of insight, that we might rest on before we engage, once more, the complexities stored in-human expression. We know now, where to look for Benny Franklin (he's hangin' on to Amer- ica's first cycle). But we're still not sure whether Benny knew what it was all about. This is where he can not help you much more, but he's given you the questions, the tools of this kind of work. And now we know that it's the asking and looking that's important- you've been telling us so in our third ear. And we know you're looking too. And so we don't wonder why you love the "beatnik, bearded saints" in your Ivy League suit. And so we find no reason to keep you in a pigeon-hole. And we see you drawing pictures for a magazine that comesout of nowhere And we see you asking us to write a Beat expose on William James And so we know why we can't understand poetry that's drawn out of our lives And we find there are thousands of places we should be looking into--all at once And there's always another book to read when you think you finished the first And there are things happening fast And there's an old school stretching out at last And there's concern and encouragement-to really think again and "think" again! ... And we know more becausewe've learned it-as you held the doors aside And we don't forget you've hung many a note on changing patterns-your classes prove this time and again And do we see in your form and content, meaning in the patterns-not pigeon-hole sureties, freedoms chained Oh, we don't know. We don't know yet, Mr. Richwine But we're looking. The 1966 ALOHA-dedicated to Mr. Keith N. Richwine