October 25, 2020

I did a dumb thing today I forgot I wasnt in Miss Kinnians class at
the adult center any more like I use to be. I went in and sat down in my old
seat in the back of the room and she lookd at me funny and she said Charlie
where have you been. So I said hello Miss Kinnian Im redy for my lessen today
only I lossed the book we was using.
She started to cry and run out of the room and everbody looked at me and I
saw alot of them wasnt the same pepul who use to be in my class.
Then all of a suddin I remembered some things about the operashun and me
getting smart and I said holy smoke I reely pulled a Charlie Gordon that
time. I went away before she came back to the room.
Thats why Im going away from here for good to the Warren Home school. I dont
want to do nothing like that agen. I dont want Miss Kinnian to feel sorry for
me. I know evrybody feels sorry for me at the bakery and I dont want that
eather so Im going someplace where they are a lot of other pepul like me and
nobody cares that Charlie Gordon was once a genus and now he cant even reed
a book or rite good.
Im taking a cuple of books along and even if I cant reed them I’ll practise
hard and mabye I’ll even get a littel bit smarter then I was before the
operashun without an operashun. I got a new rabits foot and a luky penny and
even a littel bit of that majic powder left and mabye they will help me.
If you ever reed this Miss Kinnian dont be sorry for me. Im glad I got a
second chanse in life like you said to be smart because I lerned alot of
things that I never even new were in this werld and Im grateful I saw it all
even for a littel bit. And Im glad I found out all about my family and me. It
was like I never had a family til I remembird about them and saw them and now
I know I had a family and I was a person just like evryone.
I dont no why Im dumb agen or what I did rong. Mabye its because I dint try
hard enuf or just some body put the evel eye on me. But if I try and practis
very hard mabye I’ll get a littel smarter and no what all the words are. I
remembir a littel bit how nice I had a feeling with the blue book that I red
with the toren cover. And when I close my eyes I think about the man who
tored the book and he looks like me only he looks different and be talks
different but I dont think its me because its like I see him from the window.
Anyway thats why Im gone to keep trying to get smart so I can have that
feeling agen. Its good to no things and be smart and I wish I new evrything
in the hole world. I wish I coud be smart agen rite now. If I coud I woud sit
down and reed all the time.
Anyway I bet Im the frist dumb persen in the world who found out some thing
inportent for sience. I did somthing but I dont remembir what. So I gess its
like I did it for all the dumb pepul like me in Warren and all over the
world.
Goodby Miss Kinnian and dr Strauss and evrybody…
P.S. please tel prof Nemur not to be such a grouch when pepul laff at him
and he woud have more frends. Its easy to have fiends if you let pepul laff
at you. Im going to have lots of fiends where I go.
P.S. please if you get a chanse put some flown on Algernons grave in the bak
yard.