And I know I'm supposed to feel guilty for wanting people to buy my books… and books in general? Novels and poetry they belong to the realm of art. How dirty of us to try to hawk art! But after a decade of hand-wringing and apologies I can't quite muster the guilt anymore.
How does one happen to write a poem: where does it come from? That is the question asked by the psychologists or the geneticists of poetry.
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I've often entertained paranoid suspicions about my fridge and what it's been doing to my poetry when I'm not looking but I never even considered that my fan was thinking about me.
