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As Best I Could

Poetry Off the Shelf

CHAPTER

Stupid Beauty

I think we get back to that intensity. That might be me on one evening, and then the next line, I'm like, Oh my God, I'm watching Big Bang Theory with my dogs. And it's great. And I can order an expensive art book because I don't have any as a gay man at age 48. It's odd to look at the poem, Stupid Beauty, that poem feels particularly vulnerable to me. There was a moment when I read, like he said, it read a couple days ago, where I was like, I'm gonna cry.

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