An Excuse For Not Returning the Visit of a Friend

Mei-Yao Ch'en

Translated by Kenneth Rexroth

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An Excuse For Not Returning the Visit of a Friend

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Do not be offended becauseI am slow to go out. You knowMe too well for that. On my lapI hold my little girl. At myKnees stands my handsome little son.One has just begun to talk.The other chatters withoutStopping. They hang on my clothesAnd follow my every step.I can't get any fartherThan the door. I am afraidI will never make it to your house.

Kenneth RexrothKenneth Charles Marion Rexroth was born December 22, 1905 in South Bend, Indiana. Orphaned at fourteen, Rexroth moved to live with his aunt in Chicago, where he was expelled from high school. He began publishing in magazines at the age of fifteen. As a youth, he supported himself with odd jobs- as a soda jerk, clerk, wrestler, and reporter. He hitchhiked around the country, visited Europe, and backpacked in the wilderness, reading and frequenting literary salons and lecture halls, and teaching himself several languages.

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