{"id":30345,"date":"2022-04-14T14:14:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-14T14:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/p\/excerpts-from-a-poem-to-meet-your-egos-cravings#id31634"},"modified":"2022-04-14T14:14:00","modified_gmt":"2022-04-14T14:14:00","slug":"excerpts-from-a-poem-to-meet-your-egos-cravings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/excerpts-from-a-poem-to-meet-your-egos-cravings\/","title":{"rendered":"Excerpts from a poem to meet your ego\u2019s cravings."},"content":{"rendered":"

For the moment when the interlocutor finally comes calling. From David Lehman's “Questions to Ask for a Paris Review<\/em> Interview”<\/p>\n

\n

Do you have a favorite time of day? Favorite weather?
\nTell me about your writing process.
\nIs that so? I would never have guessed.
\nDo you ever think about abandoning writing altogether?<\/p>\n

I’m sorry but I have to ask you this.
\nHow is writing a novel like playing a game of chess?
\nOne critic called your last book a “mess.”
\nWhat do you think of psychoanalysis?<\/p>\n

You once told me that the greatest human subject is lust.
\nHave you thought about how and where you’d like to die?
\nCertainly I can clarify.
\nI don't mean now, but when you must.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Via the Paris Review's daily poem newsletter.<\/a><\/p>\n

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For the moment when the interlocutor finally comes calling. From David Lehman’s “Questions to Ask for a Paris Review<\/em> Interview”<\/p>\n

\n

Do you have a favorite time of day? Favorite weather?
\nTell me about your writing process.
\nIs that so? I would never have guessed.
\nDo you ever think about abandoning writing altogether?<\/p>\n

I\u2019m sorry but I have to ask you this.
\nHow is writing a novel like playing a game of chess?
\nOne critic called your last book a \u201cmess.\u201d
\nWhat do you think of psychoanalysis?<\/p>\n

You once told me that the greatest human subject is lust.
\nHave you thought about how and where you\u2019d like to die?
\nCertainly I can clarify.
\nI don’t mean now, but when you must.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Via the Paris Review’s daily poem newsletter.<\/a><\/p>\n

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