! ! To A Much Loved Poet

You know how people who are really serious – that’s, not those who pretend to be serious, or those who are paid to be serious – pretend to be not so serious? And you know how people who are really lonely – that’s not those who want sympathy, oh no, or those who want to enjoy being lonely – pretend to be not so lonely? So she never quite believed, for obvious reasons, just how much she was loved by all her readers: perhaps and I only say perhaps she might have feared to lose that painful treasure that we wanted to love away and which made us love her so much and even more.