What's Happening Now
Momus and I visited Morpheus in Portland at the end of that summer 2018, for a quick lunch to see him and Lelantos and Caerus. We ate at a picnic table outside a waffle restaurant near Division. I watched them walking down the sidewalk as they approached, Morpheus wearing the blue and green plaid shirt that I would again see him wear, as he ran from his house in February 2020, later on instagram, and still later, again on a social media site in 2021. Caerus, as usual, was eagerly trying to be friends with anyone passing by.
At the end of August, I received texts from Morpheus asking about transferring his stock accounts to him, a request for extra money to pay for school books during his last year at Reed, and for repairs to his car, a mini cooper he had had for a couple of years. He and Lelantos had driven the car from Atlanta in the summer of 2016, stopping to visit Mount Rushmore on the way.
In Atlanta a week later, I phoned Morpheus, as we had discussed, to arrange a time that he could be on the phone to transfer his stocks when I was at the broker's office. I received a text from Morpheus that said he did not think he could talk because he had left to go camping and would have no reception. I thought this was odd since he had initiated the request.
Is it possible that Morpheus was restrained from calling, or chose not to call, hoping that I would not sign anything?
A week after I transferred Morpheus’s accounts, we arrived home after dinner, and saw a mini cooper like Morpheus’s parked in the street out front. I thought Morpheus had come for a visit, but he was not inside, so I said it must be a car just like his, and I sent a text to him asking if he had a key to our house. The next morning we found a typed letter in our mailbox. This letter said that we had given Morpheus PTSD and he could not say the name “MOM”. He said he wanted no contact with us and he knew this would hurt us. The letter also demanded that I send all his stock certificates to him, and threatened that he would take a restraining order out against us if we contacted him, or anyone about him. He said he would be keeping his new i phone 7 that was on my account. The letter also said that he loved us and appreciated all the opportunities we had given him. He said this separation would not be forever.
In early October 2022, Momus and I met with Morpheus at a coffee shop in Portland. We have no plans to meet again.
