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Follow up Letter to Douglas Watson May 1983
![vacances, à la maison ou if a "bricole"
et améliore notre cadre de vie.
Je suis assez prise, avec ma nouvelle
occupation de "charme d'hôtes" et jai,
durant l'été, reçu beaucoup d'Anglais et de
Danois. le Prochain week-end j'aurai des
Américains qui viendront avec leurs amis
Parisiens.
le jardin pleure aujourd'hui sous la
pleure que nous a raies default durant
l'etc; et je sens que ce temps mausade
va me reconduire, comme chaque automne
et hiver, a mon travail de peintre en mon
atelier.
Merci a vous cher James de m'avoi
lue et je vous [undecipherable] souvenir
de Jean et moi je vous embrasse.
Nicole.
P.S. Une photo de [undecipherable] de mes derniers tableaux.](https://cuny.manifoldapp.org/system/resource/4/b/1/4b17e91c-c83e-4de5-a4d7-e4fc06fe6f2c/attachment/7175138279d856ccf4089bfe44700064.jpg)
Letter from Nicole Lamotte October 1990 (page 2 of 2)
![[*Replied 2 Nov. 90 in a letter, in French, on "Merci beaucoup" card.*]
[*Said that after publication of Whole Grain in Jan., I'd be able to think of finding best means of publishing a book of poems using her drawings.*]
Nicole LAMOTTE
Atelier
"Le Buisson"
M E S L A Y
4220 THURY-HARCOURT
Tel. 13(31)79.40.53
le 3 Oct 1990
[*recd 6.10*]
Bien Cher James.
Je suis mécontent après moi car je
n'ai pas encore mis le temps de senir vous
remercier très sincèrement pour l'envoi que
vous avez fait faire a mon adresse de 8 volu.
mes de Deadly James and other poems.
Je crois que nous allons faire un petite
échange avec Jean Mignenne pour avoir
chacun vos œuvres au complet.
Merci done encore a vous. Et si vous
avez besoin de ae volume n'oubliez pas
que j'en suis la détentrice.
J'avois espérer vous revoir et vous
recevoir chez moi en ce dernier été, mais
je pense que toutes vos obligations ainsi
que votre travail intense vous ont pris
tout votre temps.
Nous parlons souirent de vous
avec Jean Mignenne et lui me donne de
vos nouvelles et me tient informée de vos a
ctivités.
Peut être qu'un jour nous pourrons
faire paraitre les œuvres que je vous ai
illustrées et que j'aime tant.
Jean, mon mari a passé ses](https://cuny.manifoldapp.org/system/resource/5/c/7/5c796170-049c-48d7-bc5a-e78dad585e9f/attachment/f67aa2804c84f1a9464520a97d70e86c.jpg)
Letter from Nicole Lamotte October 1990 (page 1 of 2)
![JAE FRENCH
AUTO ITINERARIES
par avion air male
[probably 1972-75 trips]
G L
G. LALO](https://cuny.manifoldapp.org/system/resource/e/2/f/e2fb8258-1d02-431c-a271-626001947b8a/attachment/9fa467800d631319f1636267943079d9.jpg)
JAE French Auto Itineraries
Firing Squads
WHITE-BELLY JUSTICE 1
![Poem begun at 55 bis ...., Paris, 26 Aug. 1986, 12:50 p.m.—12:57, 6:40 p.m.—7:51, [*10:20 p.m.—12.18 a.m.*]
DAMN A FIRING SQUAD
by J. A. Emanuel
Damn a firing squad,
[Business lipped] metal-lipped and blind to what [before they see,
[their rifles raised like [undecipherable] firming,
[their barrels] rifle sights pointed like [verdicts] testimony
[sawed] cut up, [stitched together, knifed] regrooved, tooled into line
[their] trigger fingers light as coils [mechanism]
inside a clock stopped ticking —
[rag doll makers, turn their backs]
[of the goods they knew.]
Nothing-personal killers
Repeating the verdict.
[*12:57 stopped here (final line maybe: Damn a firing squad, its duty done.) Or Damn this daily business of the world, its duty done.) Or … if it be possible to damn the daily business…).*]
Firing squad, [proud]
[proud]
[shining up for a funeral,]
proud as the Arlington bugler,
[all] shining/[up]their boots for the funeral
for sharp salutes into the grieving air,
bullets for the hero
still soldering there.
Mountain firing squad,
bandoliered, [and whiskers] bearded as/[bushes]shrubbery,
scowling at [the] traitors
who are tongue-tied at [never understood] their treason,
who slump [sank] suddenly, like rag dolls,
against their tight tree trunks,
[*line by itself*]
[*who jerk like rag dolls and slump on their tree trunks*]
as if tired of it all.
Damn a firing squad--
if it be possible
to damn the daily business
of this world.](https://cuny.manifoldapp.org/system/resource/c/0/0/c005bf3d-c6b1-494d-bad5-16f72abfabe5/attachment/f7819c1f749ee9f1f653770ce33bf7fc.jpg)
Draft DAMN A FIRING SQUAD
DEADLY JAMES (For All the Victims of Police Brutality)
![Poem begun at Le Barry, 1 Aug. 1985, 11:20 a.m.—12:37; 4:40 p.m.—5:05
A BLACK MILITANT POEM SPEAKS
by J. A. Emanuel
I was born militant,
screamed
when the world first [*leave 5 spaces*] touched me,
slapped me into life.
Measles, mumps, and scarlet fever
dug [was like trenches to my bedroom door,]
foxholes near my schoolyard,
[tried an tough tested me at fighting back,]
[blood tested
[while words my father hated]
[toughened my hands]
[to the schoolyard,] to my inkwell,
[sank] dragged me home
to [for] test[s at] my fighting back.
Retilo Remos taught me how to [swear curse
like Mexicans pushed [who had to live] in boxcars homes [across the] across [beyond] the railroad tracks,
while words my father always hated
[toughened my hands, like cracked marbles toughening gripped] toughened my hands
like the grip of cracked marbles.](https://cuny.manifoldapp.org/system/resource/3/0/b/30bbc15c-2790-434e-bd8c-1e2755707614/attachment/7a6711ded94ed9322a4b9d66f6f91496.jpg)
Draft, A BLACK MILITANT POEM SPEAKS