Just One Thing with Kurt David

Kurt David’s poem “Galentine’s Day” contains taco trucks, a dog on the couch, an ear to chew on, the word “lover.” Here he shares just one thing about the piece:

“‘Galentine's Day’ is one of my many odes to friendship, very much in conversation with the nonfiction book I'm working on. In one chapter, I discuss the contemporary French philosopher Geoffroy de Lagasnerie, who argues that governments should install ‘friendship ministries’ to help orient society away from its fixation on family and marriage. I love to imagine what the U.S. Ministry of Friendship might do. For one, I think it should enshrine Galentine's Day as a federal holiday so that, in the spirit of its originator Leslie Knope, we could all eat syrupy waffles with our friends.”

Outside, a bearded man stands in profile with a gummy smile. He's wearing a black jacket and a white shirt, unbuttoned nearly halfway. He has a dab of glitter where his eyes are crinkled, and his hair is streaked with grays.

Photo credit: Matt Goias 

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