Exhibit 1.6.7

There is a NIGHT within the NIGHT

These wolves know what he's talking about. 

I saw Frank Bidart read once and don't remember thinking a single thing about it except that maybe his black blazer was a little too big. I'm sure he was great. Honestly, I have almost no memory of it happening, almost don't trust myself in thinking it did happen, and, hell, maybe it didn't. Maybe we were just at the same place and he didn't read. Maybe I read. Maybe there's no such thing as reading. Maybe my black blazer is too big.

(That last one is almost certainly true).

But I'm pretty sure I'd remember if he'd read "To the Dead" which, maybe, is a famous poem? I have no idea. I know nothing about Frank Bidart, the dead, "The Dead," poetry, nights, readings, or anything that happened before this word. I do know I like it though and that I used it in my fiction class.

(Also, Nick Flynn's "Emptying Town." I've got a weird fiction class).

But you should read it here and listen to him read it--presumably while wearing an appropriately sized blazer--here.

Frank Bidart! Who knew.

Exhibit 26.25

Things

* The Cupboard Summer Sale - it's ending soon. $12/subscriptions, $3/volumes.

* I've been reading through these poems all morning instead of finding a place to live. I'm really good at not finding places to live.

* Yesterday in coffeeshopping, a man came in with a Starbucks cup and turned on a TV that was in the corner. This was not a Starbucks. The man then flipped channels until finding Hidalgo which he seemed really excited about. Unfortunately, the barista then came over, yelled at the man by name, and told the man he was sick of this. The man then left without asking the barista what exactly he was sick of. The TV watching? The Starbucks? The Viggo Mortensen? It was the most exhilarating 30 seconds of my day.

* In order to understand this, I had to wikipedia Twitter and find out what RT and hashtag meant. Still, #edibleshortstories is fun. I would go with "A Good Day for Bananafish" but that's, you know, already the title.