If I finish in a reasonable amount of time,
you guys can ask questions too.
Or you can even ask questions now.
That's what I said to the kids in the juvie hall.
And they asked a lot of questions.
But if anyone is so moved to jump in and ask a question
or make a comment or even just a noise, it's really fine.
Call and response.
I'll read one more from this book.
This is called, "Splenectomy."
Splenectomy as you all know is the operation
where your spleen gets removed.
You have to say that "as you all know" thing.
Even though maybe a lot of you didn't know what
a splenectomy was.
[LAUGHTER]
"Splenectomy."
"Hard after the spill to again pick the motorcycle up,
to go back into the elephant grass, the air inside green
but for the oil, hard to get up sometimes,
even after a year, each bone un-centered, stricken sideways,
airless beside the fallen.
Go, lay the bike back in its broken slick,
wave the cars on, something hot sparks your face,
her cry off left, there, like sex,
you've forgotten her wrist, go toward it.
Tall grass, hairpin, adrenaline, what
makes it so fast, how hands end up inside you, how
this is supposed to save you?"