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Day 12: The Great Gatsby / Shit Talking With Joe and Cheryl in Buffalo
In the first of three days back in Buffalo, Cheryl and I went to see a matinee of THE GREAT GATSBY.
I went big by drinking an americano and eating a bag of popcorn. Cheryl ate some sort of dried fruit rings. It was as American as shit. As usual, we didn’t talk about the movie at all until we turned the tape recorder on. Here is what we had to say while driving across Buffalo:
Days 10 – 11: Portsmouth, NH / Home
Day 10: Portsmouth
Where I woke.
Jeremiah showed us his printing studio and the ocean. Carrie & I read for the fourth and last time in four days. Carrie gave a devastating reading of her short sequence “Pandora’s Star Box.” Word and voice, tenor and vehicle were so fully flush with one another and maybe the duel exhaustion of speaker and listener, the emptying out of driving and ambling so much had something to do with how all the telescoping the poem does–the moving from the miniscule and fragile to the quasi-eternal and self consuming –was absolutely crushing.
If paper could hold it.
Day 11: Home
I drove home. I had lunch with James and Jess in Albany. It was such a rich lunch.
I drove home.
JOE HALL 