San Francisco. Day #2. Walked up and down Polk Street by myself all afternoon. Didn't say any words outloud really until about 4:00. Ate a burrito at Nick's tacos. Bought some little plastic whales. Took the BART and chatted it up with Lily and Claire in Berkeley. Great people great poets. Lily Read. I read. Graham Foust's Necessary Strangers. Pushing Mathias' book at Pegasus. Beers with Doug (O! to finally meet you), Clay (O! to finally meet you), C, L, etc. Also: M and P are some of my very favorite people in the world.