<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><oembed><version><![CDATA[1.0]]></version><provider_name><![CDATA[a hard and a rock place]]></provider_name><provider_url><![CDATA[https://muirnin.wordpress.com]]></provider_url><author_name><![CDATA[David]]></author_name><author_url><![CDATA[https://muirnin.wordpress.com/author/muirnin/]]></author_url><title><![CDATA[63. pastiche]]></title><type><![CDATA[link]]></type><html><![CDATA[This post was inspired by an episode of This American Life where some of their frequent contributors offered their own take on William Carlos Williams' famous poem, "This Is Just To Say" (in particular, Kenneth Koch’s “Variations on a Theme by William Carlos Williams,” which can be read here). I'm feeling rather down and lonely tonight, and this is the way it came out. These seem like inevitable conversations I will have, if they ever happen at all.]]></html></oembed>