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Dear Phoebe
Sorry I messed up
(again)
Too bad being a failure
isn't a real job
I think I have a knack for it
I know I said
I wouldn't go away
Sorry I missed your play
I bet you were a great
Benedict Arnold
I'm feeling much better
most of the time now
Maybe Mom and Dad will bring you
to see me soon
I guess I'll have to ask my doctor
if it would help my recovery
(God, that kills me)
The people here
are pretty nice
and not so phony
Some of them are pretty fucked messed up
but they're okay
I think you'd like them
I've been thinking
about Allie a lot
I want you to know
that next Fall I'm going to a new school
and I'm going to try
to apply myself
(like the psychoanalyst keeps asking me)
Maybe this time
it will be better
not so many phonies and mean guys
not such a stinking school
Don't forget
to brush your teeth
Lousy teeth shouldn't matter to people
but they do
Even though you're just a kid, Phoebe
I know you understand
I couldn't stay where I was
I had to leave
I'm sorry I made you cry
and that I took your Christmas money
and that the record I bought for you broke
Love
Your brother
Holden
submitted for Imaginary Garden With Real Toads, Epistle, Letter from Holden Caulfield to his sister Phoebe from Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
