I have the lightest brightest friends

If you've been around at all you know the characters, and if you were around last summer or last winter break you'll remember a handful of key players, a ragged, broke, well-read, well-dressed bunch, geniuses every one, out-of-towners hardly down and out, at least one growing his beard out: these are my friends.

Word has it Glenn Negretti's back in town for a week or so and this morning a message from Phillip, inconspicuously, 9:04 a.m.:

well patrick mate, i just wanted to warn you that i should be in town in about 10 days...get your rest while you can; we'll sleep when we're dead.

Winter break he was reading War & Peace drinking vodka nightly sleeping (hood up) when he could get the sleep and keeping me from a saintly existence. I've gotta ready mind & body for him every time and I don't care who you are you should be ready to be with us too.