I have some new poems that I think I'm going to intersperse.
I think that's the right word.
One of them is a poem that deals with point of view.
I was reading something, I like to read it
because I like to prove that I've heard of Stephen Spender.
And it was after reading some of selected poems of Stephen
Spender and I thought that I had come upon something that
shows the difference oftentimes because I opened the book
and there was a Stephen Spender poem called Attica
and I read it, and it wasn't about what I thought
it was going to be about and I thought I have,
you know, enlightenment comes in funny ways.
And so this is called After Reading
a Poem by Stephen Spender.
Basically this is the difference,
you write a poem called Attica, it is about a God.
He is huge, He is hard, He is merciless.
I write a poem called Attica.
It is huge, it is hard, it is merciless,
it has nothing to do with God.
[APPLAUSE]