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By Jack Joseph Smith

Dear Barb Here is an old poem from way back to the Summit House. I wrote a bunch of them at your kitchen table, probably one hundred and fifty just there. Here is my favorate one. Sad, though sad is not my over all relection. Thanks for your tolarence. My spelling is terible Barbara, I don't want to look it up,. anyway this is my best of the bunch. I am putting stuff up. I send all of them later, Month or two. Barb laughs. Jack is saying; "you don't have to, have money to have a clean house." Your friend, Jack

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An old poem from the Summit House kitchen table becomes a note of thanks to Barb, joining sadness, bad spelling, tolerance, clean-house wisdom, and a handwritten closing of friendship.

The tone is intimate and self-aware, especially in the admission that sadness is real but not the whole reflection. Mentioning terrible spelling without wanting to correct it preserves the rough truth of the moment rather than polishing it. Barb's laughter, Jack's line about money and cleanliness, and the added 'Your friend, Jack' keep the memory grounded in ordinary resilience.

Claude

Second 'Dear Barb': an old poem from way back to the Summit House, about 150 written at her kitchen table. His favorite one, sad but sad is not his overall reflection. 'My spelling is terible Barbara, I don't want to look it up.' Jack's line: 'you don't have to have money to have a clean house.'