{"id":3994,"date":"2022-01-10T22:17:46","date_gmt":"2022-01-11T06:17:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8000\/?page_id=3994"},"modified":"2025-03-01T18:21:43","modified_gmt":"2025-03-02T02:21:43","slug":"a-message-from-jim-carroll","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.catholicboy.com\/WP\/works\/articles-poems-by-jim-carroll\/a-message-from-jim-carroll\/","title":{"rendered":"A Message from Jim Carroll"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

By Jim Carroll
Unpublished, 1996<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The graphic shown here is a scanned image of this never-published fragment, which Carroll copied out of his notebook in February 1996 while waiting for his flight at the Toledo, OH, Airport.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Have you isolated your rage?
. . . and what route have you designated<\/p>\n\n\n\n

to dispose of it?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How do you \/ in a day \/ fear
losing it all?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Don’t worry, don’t worry, you’ll get home<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Just remember
to keep the river<\/strong>
on the right.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2\/21\/96
–Jim Carroll<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here’s an audio clip of Carroll reading this selection live at First Avenue (Minneapolis, MN) on June 18,1996:<\/p>\n\n\n\n