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My Drowning Home

Poetry Off the Shelf

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How Do You Channel Other People's Speech?

A poem called cast iron is about my stepfather, who has a history of cheating. He's just sort of like my stepfather once tried to date a woman that had been convicted of attempted murder of her previous husband. But when i asked him about it, he was just ean, she was great,. And i just remember thinking, that's about right. Your death drive overrides all sense of self protection. A, and people have very paradoxical relations to death.

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