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Thursday, February 26, 2015

/i repeat..

i have a glitch in my brain which prevents me from writing anything that is not true. -can you imagine such an infliction?!

what i learned over time, though, is that it doesn't seem to matter whether it is true~true; or literally true. -what a relief!!

so, shortly in advance of an interview i was dreading, i did this exercise: (see picture)

-because i just knew! the question was coming.

"Yes!" i said with a smile. "several times, in fact."

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today's memory triggered via this route:

i had taped BookTV 2014 Miami Book Fair. i watched with great delight, Richard blanco's presentation ..

i googled blanco.. poked around.. /innuendo is impossible to avoid..

i somehow landed on "is poetry dead?" by a very entertaining columnist named Alexandra. /dria? petri who writes...

...who -actually, really, truly writes

for the Washington Post.

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read her. SHE is funny.

"Can poetry still change anything?!"

"Yes! it can! Ms. Petri...". I say with a smile, " it changed my son's D into a C-

-just by attending family poetry night at his middle school."