I'd better be nice to the sound man,
because he just introduced me.
Thank you John, that was really sweet.
I knew all the quotes.
There's something so eerie about when somebody reads
your own work back to you.
It's like, I didn't write that, you liar.
Yes I did.
I want to thank POG.
Thank you guys, all, for being here.
POG is-- for me, was one of the first places in Tucson,
100,000 years ago when I encountered
Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge and Lisa Jarnot
and Ron Silliman and more recently Lyn Hejinian.
Dot Devota, Fred Moten.
So Teré, Hannah, John, Johanna, Steve, Samuel Ace,
wherever you are, Brian Blanchfield, Tenney,
wherever you ever are, I love you.
It's-- Susan, Farid, it's everybody.
Thank you guys for having us, and more importantly,
thank you for bringing Ariana to town.
I can't wait.