sad indeed, br br there are other freedoms still br freedom from having no ideas, from this dryness, br freedom from having you br as a poet on forced wit and half-cooked cleverness br freedom from a reader br who has nothing to offer br except his own loneliness br his having nothing to do br freedom from long bored br to death br freedom from having nothing br to say and comment br freedom from this feeling of emptiness br this bigotry br this indigestion of dumb thoughts br freedom from impertinence, immateriality, irrelevance, br freedom from thinking about freedom br freedom from freedom itself br there are more br freedom from pain br is useless now br that you are dead.br br RIC S.