Dear Frances,
I’m now stuck at Customs in Korea. The Chinese printer sent me to Korea to be printed because of the problems in China. So I won’t be there for my own book launch tomorrow at Barnes and Noble. What can a mouse do? I was supposed to fly home to Hawaii today.
I’m going to be a few days late. I’m very sorry. The good thing is, the Koreans at Customs are treating me very nicely and I’m sated with Korean Kim Cheese. It’s chili pepper hot, probably too hot for your delicate stomach.
What are you doing tomorrow without my books?
Wordsworth in Korea
Dear Wordsworth:
Not to worry. My publisher and Barnes & Noble have worked it all out. I will read Wordsworth! Stop the Bulldozer! using the copy of the manuscript that was sent to the printer. So it will have all the illustrations.
I will sign Wordsworth book plates and this will be given to people who pre-order your book. See, as we used to say in Hawaii, ain’t no beeg deal.
You may as well enjoy some sights in Korea. Enjoy the kim cheese. You have seen more of the world than I have these past few weeks.
See you soon,
Frances
Wordsworth, you mom may have it all covered (she usually does) but I’m mad as hell — what can they be thinking? First the Chinese, who seem to think you make more than $250,000/yr and want to tax you at a higher rate. Now the Koreans? What do they suppose, that a tree-hugging, poet-mouse threatens the national security of Korea? Show them your birth certificate and your class yearbook from Punahou School. If that doesn’t do it, I’m calling the U.N. tomorrow; oh and Amnesty International, too! Go ahead and sign the confession, what ever it is they want you to confess to — we won’t believe it, even if you confess to melting the polar ice cap (you didn’t do that, did you?) – just get your little mouse-butt home pronto. Your mom cries on the phone every night for you to get home. I can’t stand the phone bills. WW come home.
ps: Korean Customs – watch out. Wordsworth is an international treasure. You don’t want to be messing with that stuff. No way.
But….isn’t the UN led by a Korean National? I don’t think that’s going to work.
Navy Seals?
I thought of planting a tree for them but I have no idea what the national tree is for Korea. They wouldn’t like it if I planted a cherry, pine or bonsai tree, would they? They would dig it up fast.
I think I hear a plane coming in. …..wait, wait, can I have more kim cheese please?
frances must be the only author who launches a book without the book. I see a poem coming…..
WW the Poet
I, too, suspect a plot. Luring him with kim “cheese”? Perhaps “someone” is detaining Wordsworth to keep him from voting?
They all speak Korean and the only thing I understand is this kim cheese. Too late to learn Korean unless there’s a Dummie book for speaking Korean. Not to worry, I did absentee voting before I left. One of the men at Customs keeps pointing at my Aloha shirt, laughing. I guess I stand out because they all wear white shirts. Aloha from Korea. WW