Overheard in Conversation

"It's like a snowglobe with a mini kind of Mount Rushmore, but with the faces of Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound, Louis Zukofsky, and Rae Armantrout. And you never have to shake it."

"It's a strategy of writing that makes every other kind of poem seem both narrative and lyrical. Are you going to finish that?"

"No. No, I don't think so. He's probably just busy, and he's probably waiting for you to call him."