I'm reading in Orono today, but will anyone come? Obama did have to choose today to make an appearance in Portland.

Ah well. I will read to the robins.

I'm going to perform a new, unpublished, never-before-read-aloud-in-public poem. It's called "Ugly Town." There's plenty in it about mud and digging, but I hope the literary references won't annoy the robins.