and I responded: There are two things I’ve always had a difficult time with: poetry and performance art. Both are unintentionally uncomfortable to me, as if stumbling upon someone’s open diary and catching a few words that force you to pause and read the whole page. That feeling of invading someone’s privacy (and getting great pleasure from it) never leaves me, even when the performances are public or the poems are published or spoken. And I’ve been reading poetry lately! […]

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