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[bodytext] => in preparing for a tv appearance to promote my new book, i asked the host what were my restrictions regarding language or content… “oh, we’re cable… don’t worry about it. just read whatever you want.” just to play it safe i e-mailed him a file containing everything i thought i might want to read. the next day he wrote back saying everything’s fine, but please don’t read the poem “some dumb *****”. either don’t read it or please change the line. now the poem’s about this guy (a “dumb *****”) who plots a public suicide to make a political statement. but, he’s a rookie at public suicide and he blows it. he forgets to inform the media and ends up setting himself on fire with no one watching. i thought it was a pretty funny poem… but it was either too political for him or he didn’t like the word, and he asked me not to read it. so, here i sit, going through my stack of poems, trying to come up with 22 minutes worth of magic. finally, bored with it all, i put the stack away and go upstairs. i walk into the kitchen and Kathy asks: ”well, how’d it go? what are you going to read?” i crack open a beer, look at her and say: “aw, heck, i don’t know. just some dumb *****.” [comments] => 0 [counter] => 156 [topic] => 43 [informant] => JohnYamrus [notes] => [ihome] => 0 [alanguage] => english [acomm] => 0 [haspoll] => 0 [pollID] => 0 [score] => 0 [ratings] => 0 [editpoem] => 1 [associated] => [topicname] => oops )
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