SUCCESS
The results are in. I am cancer free. And I've lost about six pounds in five days. Gracias, Cole Robinson. Now I'm going to celebrate by shopping for cassettes. Life es bueno.
THE POETRY PROBLEM
Poetry is not a problem. There's a lot of terrible poetry. There's a lot of mediocre poetry. There's a lot of self-indulgent poetry. Occasionally there is poetry so good it knocks you flat on your ass. This is rare. The poetry problem is this. A poet writes a poetry collection, it gets some attention. The poet stands in front of a microphone with their face buried in the book or with an iPhone in their hand and reads poems from the book. There's no magic there's no fire there's just a human being reading words. People show up for poetry readings. They sit there and watch a poet read the poems into the microphone. And it's nothing. There's no danger no fire no blinding light. I don't go to poetry readings. I've been to a few. But I never made a habit of attending poetry readings. I never felt great about reading my poems into microphones. I always felt like something was missing. I'll be reading into a microphone in November but for the first ...
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