Buffalo Bill Cody’s Letter to Himself

erasure from LETTER BY BUF BILL CODY, MARCH 21, 1902

Yesterday and today
should be closer:

this very thought should drift
all alone, thinks of all alone.

it must be a new life
my life, living false

I was another
man joined together

I live deceit,
my telling you of my life

then you grow more
enlightened.

I had no intent of
joining two persons together.

Life,
undo this mistake,

look forward to
every bit of separation.

This war, public,
I hope I may be done

with you. You, brother,
you manage me.