All right.
You guys have been too kind now you can play stump the chumps.
[LAUGHTER]
So if anybody has any questions concerning process
or whatever we do, just let us know who you're directing it to
and we don't know names.
So if we say, hey, you, we're not being rude.
Or if we just point, we're not being rude.
That's if you have any questions about anything.
OK.
Does this feel like a competition, a collaboration,
or anything else?
Just feels good.
I don't know for me--
go ahead, Regie.
I thought it was a conversation.
Yeah.
It could be competitive.
I guess so.
I mean--
Could it be collaborative.
That happens in conversations.
Many times it happens in conversations.
Yes, sir.
Did you tell each other about what you were going to read?
Nope.
Absolutely no idea.
How did you know what to bring?
We just brought it all, man.
I believe you.
Just like, OK, I'll bring whatever.
And you might have three or four pieces you know you want to do.
At least that's the way it was for me.
And stuff I might do and we gave things
to Frances to copy just in case other people needed to read it.
And-- but really no real idea how this was going to turn out
and what we were going to do with each other.
But we knew we wanted to have sort of a conversation
as we said, that's not only intergenerational
but also every other way we could think about.
Regie and I respect each other, and we're
such different writers from two totally different ends
of the spectrum.
And you may not see this kind of dynamic
very often because poets of an "I am" you
know flock with the same poets of the "I am," you know?
So.
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