Caitlin McGregor noted the people sitting at the table are grandfather and granddaughter she's telling him some stories about her mother, and he's laughing a lot and he says, "you really need to write these stories down" and she says, "gosh nah i dunno" and he says, "nah i mean it, they're damn good stories" * a thing people say about social media sometimes is: ooh i did something and didn't post about it did it really happen all sarcastic, like it's a joke but it seems sort of serious to me * i have a habit of eavesdropping and putting strangers' conversations into my poems it's not stealing, it's like picking up scraps or five cent pieces that people don't care about dropping * i keep a diary which is mostly drawings of things i've eaten or read when i go back and colour the old drawings in they don't trigger any memories * i asked my uncle how he'd feel if he caught a stranger writing down something he was saying and he said: "i'd be bloody astonished that i'd said anything worth writing down"