The PigPen's Resplendent Kaffeeklatsch

[milo]

So we started clearing a small loft area yesterday, laughed til we cried because half the stuff neither of us remembered picking up and then storing. But up there were a bunch of poetry books that survived the great book purge when I needed shelf space. A stack of slim paperbacks, a fat old Oxford Book of American verse and the skinniest hardback Thirty-one Poems by Rainer Maria Rilke with this inscription:
Dear Rina, To remember this night - a preview into the future. with Love, Birdie June 3, 1948
and Rina's library label (my dad's books had those). I wonder what the occasion was.

I love old books and old books with writing in them even more! If you have heard of the 1975 (band) they were named after an inscription found in an old Ginsberg