Letters Never Sent- Vol 3

September 20, 1989

Dear Lisa,

Being back in school stinks,

I don’t mind tho, since I have summer memories to get me thru my long boring days of geometry. When I want to think about you, I pull out my script from summer camp and re-read our scenes together. I have learned to only do this when I am alone, since doing the voices out loud for both parts makes people stare. And I have been reading even more plays whenever I can even tho I have a hard time understanding all the words that Shakespeare uses, it's not like when I was with you and they just sort of made sense. I sure am glad that we didn't have to stage it like they did back in Victorian times, or i would've been stuck kissing Ronny Felderbaum instead of you. (though i heard he is a pretty good kisser, that's what i heard anyway).. but i digress..

Take this one story, Titus Andronicus, I have no idea what’s going on or why, there is a lot of killing people and I think I read it right that Titus just made a pie out of these guys and made their mom eat it. Gross right? I can't have read that right, I didn’t think that kind of gore came out before the Texas-Chainsaw Massacre. (which my Dad won't let me see b/c its full of Satan worshipping heathens), but I saw a poster of it in a comic one time, so I got the idea, i guess he never read any Shakespeare, huh? ... My favorite is when they get chased by a bear. I think it would be cool if they made it into a movie with like Keanu Reeves, he's like such a cool guy, and he could totally be awesome with the poetry. Maybe in the next Bill & Ted movie they'll go back in time and have to save Shakespeare from aliens or something cool like that. If I had a time machine phone booth I would totally go back to last summer... but I digress…

How have you been? I am thinking often of our rehearsals at camp, sometimes I wake up thinking about them and have to change my underpants, I guess that a little TMI, sorry.

Anyway. I hope things in Connecticut are good. I wasn’t sure of what your address was, but I remembered you saying you went to “the Academy” in Hartford, so I looked up the address and I just figured if I sent it there, you would get it in homeroom, you know, like I just passed you a note.

So I hope you get this and write back. If it's not too much trouble, could you send a picture, so the guys in my biology class will stop making fun of me for saying I have a make-believe girlfriend, and if it could show your boobs that would be great.

TTFN,

Henry

PS.. See what i mean.. it's super gross...

TITUS ANDRONICUS : Receive the blood: and when that they are dead, Let me go grind their bones to powder small, And with this hateful liquor temper it; And in that paste let their vile heads be baked. Come, come, be every one officious To make this banquet; which I wish may prove More stern and bloody than the Centaurs' feast. So, now bring them in, for I'll play the cook, And see them ready 'gainst their mother comes......

SATURNINUS : Go fetch them hither to us presently.

TITUS ANDRONICUS: Why, there they are both, baked in that pie; Whereof their mother daintily hath fed, Eating the flesh that she herself hath bred. 'Tis true, 'tis true; witness my knife's sharp point.