--a couple of short poems from this recent book.
This one is only a few lines long and it's a reaction--
I guess it's--
I think a lot more poems of mine that I'd like to--
that I did that are written out of irritation
like "Marco Polo."
And this one is based on an expression
that you hear all too often these days, the expression
being "oh my god," which is a corollary to "I was, like,
oh my god"--
[LAUGHTER]
[INAUDIBLE] version of oh my god.
But this is just the simple "Oh My God."
"Not only in church and nightly by their bedsides
do young girls pray these days.
Wherever they go, prayer is woven into their talk
like a bright thread of awe.
Even at the pedestrian mall outbursts of praise
spring unbidden from their glossy lips."
[LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE]