Frances is too cute.
Thank you.
If you want to say anything, you just [INAUDIBLE]..
Thank you, Frances.
That was too good.
It's nice to see you all here.
We're going to read as the spirit moves us in response
to each other back and forth.
We'll try to create a kind of conversation,
we haven't rehearsed it.
I'm sure Regie, as much as I--
has a feeling for certain poems that he will want to read,
but we don't know exactly where it'll go
and Regie's going to start, I'll respond
and then we'll go back and forth.
[INAUDIBLE]
Are we OK?
Yeah.
OK.
Let me just say thanks also to the Poetry Center,
I was going to do it later, but let me get it
out of the way now because who knows where
this conversation will take my thoughts and I may forget,
so I'm sure I speak for both of us
when I say that it's really a great pleasure
to have been invited here and to be
able to participate in the activities
of a wonderful institution.
Thank you, Gail and Frances.