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.”