i try to avoid this meta-writing crap, and i promise this will be the last for a while. i keep having people write me emails commenting on a poem, which i love, but i also love getting comments posted here. it is a fetishistic thing. somehow it is more concrete, more real, when placed here. it feels like being a movie star. and we all know i love being a movie star. so please, feel free to comment. tear apart my writing with your ichor-drenched canines, i thrive on it.