"Ben Lerner Has Added You as a Friend on FACEBOOK"

Hi Ben Lerner. Thanks for adding me as a friend. Poets talk about you a lot. You have a great reputation. I don't mean that in a girly or Catholic way. I have had good experiences in friendship with people named Ben. Both living and dead. Ben is an accepted word in "Boggler" on Pogo and it's in most puzzles, hence I find "(B)en" is good luck. Ben wa balls are designed to delight. Beneficence. Benevolence. Ben Gurion. Ben was a good friend to Michael Jackson before the nightmare turned truly perversely more nightmarish. Probably you know what "Benjamin" literally means. You have me there. I do not. "Ben" makes interesting words when it starts them. To wit: benthic, Benvolio, bent, benighted, benumbed, bendy-boy, bentage. "Bengali in Platforms" is one of Morrissey's songs which may or may not be hateration. I don't think it's really nice to tell somebody to "shelve (their) Western plans." I think Mary J. Blige invented the word "hateration," or certainly she legitimized it or did the most to popularize it with that one song. A song is not a snag the way a poem is. Mary J. Blige continues to maintain a style that transcends the seventies and yet is the seventies. In this, she is like a vampire. Vampires leave a certain distractive mental feeling on the human imagination like Ben Gay. Ben Gay is probably only a Jedi mind trick the way acupuncture is. A pain more confused with pleasure is substituted for a less adulterated pain. This allows the mind to slowly drift to sleep, focusing on the new adulterated sensation. I think this is how Tibetans learn to die well. But without using Ben Gay. Thank you for adding me on Facebook. I like the moist verdancy of the image I see represents you. My vision has suffered too much lately to tell me what it is, but it looks green and cool and somewhat Pre-Raphaelite, even without the human context. Have a happy Wednesday, the hardest day to spell for logical people. I don't know any logical people. I only know logical sentences. xo B.