reading at the Lit last week

Me. Phil Metres.

dear collectors

Since you have warned me that you will use any and all information in order to collect a debt, I want you to know I just got a second job. Teaching, which is something I love. But a third job might look like this (payment made in tomatoes and peppers):

confused, but not dazed

RIP David Foster Wallace. Terrible to lose an intelligent person when there are so many stupid ones running around.

(See Sarah Palin's governing style.)

am reading this week

with poet Phil Metres at the Literary Cafe, Thurs., 9/11, 9:30.

last line of Obama's speech

Hold firmly, without wavering, to the hope that we confess.

all of a sudden

I feel inadequate because I don't know how to field-dress a moose.