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[”you’re thinking”]Ulyses Razo






you’re thinking

you’ve got

you’re doing

if you’re lucky

you’ve taken

they’ve given you

that’s pretty

that’s like

it’s more like

save me from any disaster

where’s the funny?

bring me the funny

i’m thinking that it goes

that there’s a need for

that they’re not glib

it’s serious

and also kind of

if you’re not looking for

the joke isn’t

but I don’t tend

it’s a joke

i don’t have someone

they’re, you know, like

‘That’s crazy’

they’re a bit funnier

it’s inflection

i don’t know where they go

if i’m alone in my house

that’s actually one of the reasons

i’m having a conversation

there’s something clunky in the

[beginning or the end]

you’re racing a little bit

that’s a sign

of needing to revise

that music’s

i didn’t listen to the end

my mom said ‘oh yeah

no one young knows

the name of anything

this has to be changed

he’d read out loud

thinking ‘oh i’ve got the

it wasn’t like

it didn’t come

unless you’re

‘No book is ever finished

I think that’s

I didn’t have an overtly

I’m realizing now

‘What does it mean

to be living in a time

you’re not necessarily

the immensity of it’?

something’s happening in

who didn’t know the particulars of

Lizzy’s in

couldn’t figure out how to

didn’t know how to do that well

already i’m writing about climate

i’m going to add democracy

dying?

what’s amazing

i’ve been struck

something that doesn’t

that’s the hope

i’m sure someone’s going to write a great pandemic

so that’s what i...

there’s a few things

i don’t have a lot of name

i don’t do all that kind

what i’m interested in

we’re living in and other times

that, ‘Oh, this has never

it’s happened and is

so i guess that’s what i

and i’m hoping to

obviously that’s the kind of

you’re moving from past into

then there’s also

that’s ever happened during a

saying to myself, ‘Why are you

You’re going to have

How are you

so scared

it’s like a block of

‘Oh, that’s a

The I to the she

And I was

I’ve noticed during tons of

I’ve myself felt

you’re like above, seeing

you’re in a play

I’m always interested

‘Oh in the

beginning

she’s addressing him

and it’s we

and that’s

‘Okay, now we’re in a play

that’s why it’s called

the theatre of little hurt

now i’m just living out this

he’s going to trade me in

i think it’s three pages

from the end

it’s our daughter then

she’s talking... she’s moved out

oh, that’s what it is

easiest editing i’ve ever done

i’ve been waiting for that to happen

my one time..

where you’ve had a realization

or you’ve thought the answer to

and then you’re sort of doubtful

as you’re unpicking

it’s actually the right

it just didn’t make sense

fears, like the sort of, ‘What

do we do?

it’s the first stage

game was like ‘Okay

you’re not going to

And it did

It felt like

I’d spent so many times trying

that idea that didn’t work

that’s probably where it would

said, ‘well, that’s a lovely idea

better if blah blah blah

i would have saved myself

so you’ve spoken a bit

until it’s complete

I never really wanted

but there’s

maybe it won’t make

to anyone else

the fact that you’ve got

before you’re about to deliver

a case of just, tell me if this

i’m going to say

wasn’t anything

it didn’t

they couldn’t

i hadn’t

i’m probably

it’s like a

it’s probably like a

friend who’s a

with me it’ll

be like ‘Okay, I’m going to

what do you see?

he’ll say ‘i just don’t know

i’ll do whatever

there’s too little

there’s too much

this moment doesn’t

and then

one friend who’s just

she’ll be like

the puppy

has turned into a dog

and then it’s turned back into a puppy

you’ve just written some weird time thing

they’ll be like, ‘Oh, they’re not supposed to

this comes to me last, i’m

he’s a poet

i’m doing it all the time

like, ‘oh, i sort of feel like

such and he’ll be like

and i just

this one thing

and he’ll say what if

a hundred of these little

two of them that you wanted

they’re not tactics

he’s an editor

this is a bad idea

just because there’s

long time to figure out

why i’m interested in this handful

i’m thinking

about all the time and i can’t

it’s going

streamlining thing where i’m

like ‘oh, you’re complicating

and then i just realize

but i’m a big

it’s going to be

and you’re going

how that’s.. like i went on a

‘oh i just keep remembering that

children’s book we used to

there’s a thing

maybe there’s

i’m already

‘is there something there?

sometimes when you’re

it’s as though

there’s all these

actually don’t need to

it’s a

and i’m firmly in the

maybe aren’t obvious

and that’s where

‘no, that’s not

and this and this happened

something i don’t like in some

but there’s obviously

i can’t just

it wouldn’t be any good

with this road trip you’re

something if it really shouldn’t

‘well, you just haven’t

but we’ll

whether it’s in a group of

they would tell me, ‘we can’t

and i would say, ‘well

but it’s from the point of

she doesn’t

she wouldn’t

but i’ve been really

and i can’t

talking to me about

let’s break that up

so that we

you’re doing that sound too many

it’s more important

and shown me things that i don’t

that you don’t

earthbound are not?

i don’t know where

his advice was

‘Drift, Obey

because basically when i’m

i’ll use one of those

Gardening

Architecture

and you just think to yourself

i’m doing?

and then there’s a really

and they’ve both drawn

‘Try at

you’re making

person has drawn, stay the

no matter what happens

and so they’re playing

it’s so strange

i guess it’s the

it’s

but you didn’t

so it’s like

it’s landed from

you need to ask any

it’s

they’re on stage

everybody’s really

it’s the olympics

but there’s

i’m watching

you know, i think

i’m going to take up ice

i’d really like to

because they make it

like it’s doing lots of things

it’s somehow not showing a

i think there’s tons

it’s fun sometimes to [read]

great idea and then saying it’s a

but it’s always kind of

there’s just a

you’re just like

How did you

you’re just talking

you’re making use of the most

it’s just

it’s

it’s like

in a movie where they’ll start

there’s a settling

and once you’ve reached

you’re in the presence

even if it looks like

i think that’s why it’s so

because it’s so

‘well, that doesn’t

and i can’t even see

there’s a book that i teach

but it’s written

it’s called

it’s so clearly

you’re just like ‘i don’t

but i’m gonna stay

i think that that’s

of writer’s block is sometimes

Frank O’Hara used

but it’s kind of

‘Sure,

there’s a gap

and it’s like

it’s all part of something

that’s been really carefully

could you just

in any order?

and i’m always

not at all

that’s one of those

you’ve learned

i’m very prone to thinking

can’t write anymore

i think i’ve become more

i can’t really change it as much

i’d like

i’d love to be

i’d love to be someone

i don’t have three

my brain can’t

i’ve learned to read instead

so im just a little more

the middle and that’s because

you’re bored

you weren’t

last time you felt, ‘that’s oh