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"Wait" – a beautiful and life-giving poem by Galway Kinnell, born on this day in 1927, composed to keep a young friend from taking his own life

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Wait: Galway Kinnell’s Beautiful and Life-Giving Poem for a Young Friend Contemplating Suicide

“Be there to hear … the flute of your whole existence…”

1:58 PM · Feb 1, 2023

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When I moved to NYC in 1976 I inherited his phone number. One day Truman Capote called looking for him. Those couple minutes on the phone were why I wanted to live here.