Many writers have noted how each time and place exudes a type of music.
The title, in addition to being a serious question any writer might ask, is also an inside joke about the courage of the poetic encounter, or one\'s willingness to go beyond "normal" language, taken from the words of a manager of car salesmen, uttered after my brother.
Why Must You Say These Things Out Loud seeks that music, here in America, through a series of variously experimental free verse prose poems and micro-fictions.
Many writers have noted how each time and place exudes a type of music