“Rich Smith’s ALL TALK is like listening to my own inner-life but hearing it articulated in a way that makes sense, it’s like figuring out something about the world and then knowing we might never really know what the world is. I read these poems and I feel an urgency, I feel better about things, I feel tongue-tied. Smith’s work makes me want to smoke cigarettes, order for the whole bar, fall in love, and die in some happy but messy way.”—Matthew Dickman
Rich Smith Poetry 
I enjoyed your reading at Orr Street Studios! Keep writing. Here’s the article I wrote covering the event: http://www.axs.com/news/hearing-voices-seeing-visions-at-orr-street-studios-nov-2014-29101
I’ll have to get your book, “All Talk,” one of these days.
Also, besides “for whom friction moves” your line, “punctuated only by the occasional other person”
That one, too. It sticks in my head. It sent me to sleep. I woke up and injested All Talk before my first cup of coffee, even.
Thank you.