the rumi house 

the rumi house

> the rumi house

it's this little place out highway 80, near burns. for recovering purple prosers. you can go on your own, but most of them got sent by their editors, or their wives, like that. from the highway you can hardly see it, and it doesn't look like much. a rancher, one of those ubiquitous ones from the 50's. no garden to speak of, just some boxwood shrubs out front. view of-- the highway. cal's tow
yard. the flat, tired west oregon sky. no endless granduer, and that's part of the plan, see. teach those people to talk normal. see normal. be normal.

it's only a 6 step program-- otherwise they try to fit it into a sonnet or something. first thing is: get rid of your books. no pens, pencils, ratty-ass journals allowed. they check. no whiskey.

the first few days are hell.