The Mercedes Enterprise (Mercedes, Tex.), Vol. 87, No. 10, Ed. 1 Wednesday, March 10, 1999 Page: 3 of 16
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Mercedes, Texas 78570 Wednesday, March 10, 1999
The Mercedes Enterprise --Page 3
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Dear Mercedes..
Letters from F.S. Lentz, Jr.
Dear Mercedes,
moon in Texas and think about
It is quiet here, inside and out- other quiets.
dreds of tiny bits of moonlight
reflecting off the curved, the shiny
side. Wherever the place that The worst of those unexpected oak leaves. For a moment, they
things to write about is, it is quiet quiets comes too, and comes rock were the same.
there, too. As quiet as a piece of hard, when someone close to you There was enough moonlight
limestone ledge rock in the creek dies. The gentle noise oftheir life is between the oaks to show this
bed out behind the house. gone, the every dayness, and there rock whitely in the creek bed. In
If I were an established writer is only the sound of their memory the quiet I come across the fact
who made his living by produc- passing through a silent mind, that the country of big live oaks is
ing saleable words on deadline, 1
This quiet tonight though, again new to me. It is a newness I like
would be worried. Blessedly, I blessedly, is not that one either.
am not. I do not have to take all I have felt it coming on for a
the antidotes for “writer’s block.” while. While I do not welcome it
All I am doing is going through because I am not used to it, I don’t
it, being as quiet as I can. And
listening. I have heard awful quiet
before, the kind that comes, and
comes hard, when you didn’t ex-
pect it.
bother much about it either.
As it runs its course and I be-
come more used to it, I can see
very much. I am becoming more
used to them. It doesn’t mean for
me that I like mesquite any less.
They have been with me and in
me all of my life. A mesquite can:
give the best kind of shade there:
is. They let the breeze come
why some people like it. And through while taking the heat off
why some seek it out. I don’t have of you. But the mesquite can't
The first double engine flame- to look for it. Any one who has bring stars down to within five:
out in a jet doing five hundred written for a long time, for a liv- feet of your face. So I make room
knots: Everything went and there ing or not, will be found by it. in a liking of nature’s things for:
was only wind passing a foot On my way to the creek bed, I the live oaks, because the liking
away, outside the canopy. This, stopped on the porch just outside of wild trees is not an either or
blessedly, is not that awful quiet, the back door. The full moon was proposition. They are both part of
Nor do I go out wrestling in pieces straight up in a clear sky. Looking the country around here.
of sleek metal shaped like birds at it through the leaves of the big Something like two ofthe sev-:
of prey anymore. live oak that shades the porch I eral parts of quiet.
No, Ijust sit on a ledge rock in could barely tell the difference ^Que te vaya bien, eh?
a creek bed at night under the between the stars and the hun- Fleet-
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The Mercedes Enterprise (Mercedes, Tex.), Vol. 87, No. 10, Ed. 1 Wednesday, March 10, 1999, newspaper, March 10, 1999; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1632251/m1/3/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Dr. Hector P. Garcia Memorial Library.