It's delightful to be at the University of Arizona
and the Poetry Center and bookstore all on one visit.
I'm going to read you a selection
of different kinds of pieces of mine
that span a period of time.
And I'll begin with the title poem of my Selected,
which is Falling in Love Falling in Love with You Syntax.
"Duties over, I am falling in love, falling in love with you,
syntax, things as they might be.
Once I went with sad geology, who knew rocks not impurely,
talked of rocks, touched the soul that rocks may have.
I drank a toast to new tall order, meaning me.
I drank a toast, taught him to drink a toast,
got sloshed with him and dreamed of you prolifically.
Falling in love, falling in love with you,
syntax, gambling away bread money,
gambling away shoe money, gambling away
approximate He-Man ventures, limited partnerships
unlimited, in search of capital gain,
in search of no-load growth, in search of anger.
Meanwhile, falling in love, falling in love with you,
syntax."