[New-Poetry] Sedaris

[Anny Ballardini]

I like David Sedaris, the first time I read him it was for my first (and only) fiction class. He seizes moments that are so banal that every single body has gone through them, and out of them he builds his poetry. Here's for the few lonely smokers (are there any left out there?). And a couple of quotations:
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/05/05/080505fa_fact_sedaris

Camels were for procrastinators, those who wrote bad poetry, and those who put off writing bad poetry.
(oh well, I chose Camels because they were the cheapest _no way I can go with Menthol)

Ever prepared for the possibility of fire or theft, at my peak I had thirty-four cartons stockpiled in three different locations. "My inventory," I called it, as in "The only thing standing between me and a complete nervous breakdown is my inventory."
(I have only three but several packets scattered here and there and, believe it or not, I consider them my treasure. Never seen anybody packet hunting and coming up with several?)

Anny Ballardini
http://annyballardini.blogspot.com/
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I Tell You: One must still have chaos in one to give birth to a dancing star! 
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