What's certain is certain, I suppose. It occurs to me now I never see you smiling anymore. Friends praise your humour rich, your phrases turning on a thin dime. For me your wit is honed to a killing sharpness. But I never catch you simply smiling, anymore.
Old friends are cool.
Sure, there's an occasional death threat, but on the whole the students aren't hateful and the university does its part. On Friday, a body turned up in the woods 20 miles away from the university. The police have yet to establish a connection between this murdered black man and the purportedly murdered black man that a recent hate letter claimed could be found in a different part of the woods near Penn State. But the connection is psychologically unavoidable. I was in the union on Friday when the discovery of this body was announced, and I saw the level of fear, of outrage, of pain.