Response to, "Why Don't You Write about Something Happy?"

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A poem responding to the question 'why don't you write about something happy' with a catalogue of disasters narrowly averted.

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Bruce Weigl

Bruce Weigl’s most recent collection of poetry is Declension in the Village of Chung Loung (Ausable Books, 2006). The poems published here are from a manuscript in progress called The Abundance of Nothing . In 2006, Weigl was awarded the Lannan Literary Award for Poetry