[Unedited] Jennifer Michael Hecht with Krista Tippett
On Being with Krista Tippett
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Don't Kill Yourself
Poem is called the no hemlock rock o. Carrison keeler recently read it on a writer's almaloc and he added, like on a dute box in an old diner, in parentheses, which is, don't kill yourself. I wrote this between the to poet friends passing. It just came out of me a from thinking about my own distress and thinking about this experience. If you're going to kill yourself, stand on a street corner, rhyming. Eat a doughnut. Rhyme, opus with lotus. Rope is bogus psychosis. Hocus pocus. Try not to kill yourself. Well, you are the last lines of
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