Yeah.
[LAUGHTER]
--tell them more about it.
Well, you finally convinced me.
I mean, you just went on and on and on.
I thought, oh my god he's crazy.
Poems keep getting longer and more particular
and he's so good at this and I don't know how he does it.
I'm never going to do it, never going-- he's crazy.
It's too hard.
And it's very hard.
I recommend that no one [LAUGHS] no one try.
No, to this argument, I simply want
to say that the beauties of art is that no sooner do
you feel absolutely comfortable in what you're doing,
you are on shaky ground again.
And Alison knows as well.
That's my excuse for writing narrative poetry.
I just-- I'm so unfamiliar with it
that I thought I'd give it a whirl.
I'm sure Steve has something more intelligent to say.
[LAUGHS] No, I don't.
But there's a certain kind of magic
that I've always seen in lyric poems
because so much feels like it has been taken out
of a lyric poem.
And to make those synaptic connections, those little arcs
of fire between what you say here
and what you say there and nothing between,
that's just amazing to me to be able to do it.
And I've always wanted to write lyric poetry.
I, just, would finish a book and start writing shorter poems
and then it just never worked out.
This time, I think they worked out pretty well.
And I've got a whole bunch of longer poems
and they haven't worked out.
So, I mean, I'll write anything that comes to me.
I'm a whore--
[LAUGHTER]
--you know.
[LAUGHTER]
But I'm having a good time with it and it's wonderful.