Gregory Orr — Shaping Grief With Language
On Being with Krista Tippett
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Am, I Was Twelve When I Killed Him, and I Just Want to Start Someplace a Little Softer
Am, i'm not going to ask you to read the poem that i in every interview i've seen, which begins, i was twelve when i killed him. I kind of just want to start some place a little softer. You were participating in a popular american ritel, ritual hunting, firing a gun, becoming a man. My father was a country doctor, so we lived out inthe country. We had one stop light, two drug stores, one juke box in the dark drug store,. and, um, seven or eight churches....
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