WHY ISN'T JOHN DARNIELLE OUR POET LAUREATE?
On the morning when I woke up without you for the first time
I felt free and I felt lonely and I felt scared
And I began to talk to myself almost immediately
Not being used to being the only person there
The first time I made coffee for just myself, I made too much of it
But I drank it all…
And wouldn’t it be cool if, in my total ignorance of who John Darnielle is, I were to Google his name and find that there’s a YouTube video of him singing this very song with Tobias Wolff on occasional background vocals? Sure. That’ll happen.
