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(2) You say, "I made a CD. . ." and just leave the situation dangling, not moving to get it from your purse to hand to him or anything, just looking at him expectantly, hoping he'll supply the "For me?" pleased/plesantant surprise ending.

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This is actually a pretty good representation of what goes on each week with my poetry. I say, "I brought a poem," but I refuse to move to take it out of my bag.

Last week I didn't even say, "I brought a poem." He said, "Did you bring me anything today?" and pointed to my bag on the floor in which there was a notebook jammed in there with some paper sticking out. I said, "Fine. Maybe there is a poem in there."

That would have been a great opening-- "Did you bring me anything today?" "Why yes I did-- in fact I brought a CD, you jackass."