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2.23.01 - 1:13:44

i went to a poetry reading on monday night. then the poet came to our class on tuesday. he quoted joni mitchell. 'don't it always seem to go that you don't know what you've got 'til it's gone...' one of my favorite joni mitchell songs. '...they paved paradise and put up a parking lot.' big yellow taxi. good song. plus it's true about 99.738% of the time.

wise up is a really good aimee mann song. did you see her and michael penn at the grammys? how cute. and talented. check out their cover of springsteen's reason to believe. it's great.

so alan shapiro. what a great reading. his new book comes out next year. it's called song and dance. he read from it, and this one poem, everything the traffic will allow, wow. i mean, wow. it was so beautiful.

Japanese sounds like such a fun language. I mean, to speak. all those vowel endings.

my thoughts are really whacked out lately. i don't really know what's up, but lyotard said something once about how writers write because they don't know what they have to say, so i guess this is probably a really great time for me to be writing.

about how i don't know what to write about. they better have some hot chocolate at hawc today.

so i should be here for another hour? that seems so long. maybe i'll cut out at two. yeah. maybe. or maybe not. i DO actually have work that needs to be done. whatever happened to that great american work ethic? i could use a big shot of it right now.

there's a city in argentina called esperanza. maybe i'll live there when i grow up. it feels like it would have to be contagious. i bet there's lots of spanish speaking countries with cities named esperanza. maybe i'll just have to see which one i like the best.

i like how spanish girls have like, eighteen first names. i guess the boys do, too, but the girls' names are prettier.

ok, i'm boring myself to tears here.

i'll come back when there's more to say. or when i'm more ready to say it.

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