A Found Poem of Correspondence: Larry Summers to Jeffrey Epstein and Back

Part One: Inside the mind of a prize-winning economist

by Beatriu Delaveda / November 16th, 2025

We talked on
phone then
          I can’t talk later
Dint think I can talk
tomorrow

I said
          What are you up to?
She said
          “I’m busy.”
I said
awfully coy you are

And then I said
          Did you really
          rearrange
          the weekend we were going
          to be together
          because guy number 3
          was coming

She said
          no
          his schedule changed
          after we changed
          our plans

I said
          OK
          I gotta go
          call me when
          u feel like it

Tone was not of
good feeling

I dint want
to be
in a gift-giving competition
while being the friend
without benefits

Beatriu Delaveda is the pseudonym of a former Chester resident who has written five books as well as two chapbooks of visual poetry. The poetry, fiction, and non-fiction of this writer have been published in, among others, the Guardian, Atlantic, Sugar House, 3 am, Storm Cellar, Pinch, New York Times, Mobius, McSweeney’s, and Clapboard House, where they won a short story prize. Read other articles by Beatriu.

This article was posted on Sunday, November 16th, 2025 at 8:00am and is filed under Poetry.