Addressee:      Mama ZempterDate:               December 15, 1993Date stamp:    Portland, Maine, 16 Dec 1993 Dearest Mama,I wish

  For the benefit of Mr. MikeI screwed up a couple of months ago, by letting bitterness creep into the blog.  Erased it later, but it stank to high Heaven.  This sort of activity will really tell you where your head is at.  Bloggi

  [Ed.:  conclusion of letter Mike wrote to his friend Harry.  Thank you, Harry, as always.] ...You are doing a hell of a job to keep getting your work in print.  Can you suggest to me how I can do the same?  The few tim

  (Continuation of Letter to Harry from Mike...)  ....What do you do with yourself, physically?  I stay indoors mostly, though I sojourn sometimes to a store or some such shit.  I miss a town with squares and rectangles and c

  [Ed. Note:  Getting aggravated about the waning supply of Mike's  communications, when I turned to the letters generously supplied by Mike's esteemed friend Harry, and found one that really makes him right here all over again

  [Excerpt.  Letter from Mike @ 1982]  My sweet baby Sis -I'm enclosing Gardner's infinitely wise article about writing big breath works.  I wouldn't send it if you didn't fit it in so many ways.  I took great

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  When the criminologist does address himself to the nature of crime, he does so with shallow, unoriginal eyes, reporting crime statistics, not types of crime.  The American National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence

[Ed. Note:  This is an excerpt from a letter Michael wrote to me in only God knows what year of the eighties.  Found it so chewed up it must have been the victim of some long ago beloved and misbehaving pet.  Taped it back together and

    [Ed. Note:  See earlier entry for source list.] "How could we possibly confront corruption and criminality of the state itself?"  (Oglesby 154) ...Nevertheless, political criminality has been observed