Of course, I am writing this from that quintessentially sloppy and temporary platform, the blog, but I agree with this man that the death of longform letter writing is a tragedy.

A while back, I was trying to write letters on my old-fashioned, manual typewriter (though that mournful essaying speaks of writing longhand).

But did I stick with it? No, I did not. I have hardly typed in a month. When I do, it is to get a better view of some poems I might be working on. Which is why I’m not using this post to pretend I will take an instrument that is mightier than the sword and swat the armies of ignorance. I will keep as I am and mourn uselessly for what has been lost.