Hal Sirowitz talks funny.
I couldn’t get it out of my head.
Jesse Thorne looked funny.
I couldn’t get it out of my head.
Joseph Heller looked ancient.
I couldn’t get it out of my head.
Thom Jones read poorly.
I couldn’t get it out of my head.
All these people being exactly who they were,
as they were meant to be,
proved distracting to me.
Better I hadn’t investigated them so closely
and enjoyed them more in the abstract.

Better, at least, in theory.