and that poem was written for michael k williams. then when you get the book, you'll notice that the poems don't have titles on it because the art doesn't have titles on it because they always had his works list a section, and i was like, my poems are too. i'm not putting my title is up there. this is a work list. you know, know. and what's interesting is that way too, poems become a sequence they become unnamed in a number sequence that they all tell these thousand stories but suggest that there is a connection that runs through these stories. and i think about that last poem as exemplar because. that's a poem that i wrote on a night in my 42nd birthday. you know, i, you know, we had dinner or whatever. we went out and and i saw this video of michael k williams and he on it was he was dancing in a park and i didn't know he could dance. i knew he was an actor and i seen all his work and i had actually met him a few months before i interviewed him a podcast about democracy and so we had like chopped it up and i and i knew him and so o

sentenced to two and a half years in prison in connection with the fatal overdose of the wire actor michael k. williamss year. they were accused of operating a drug trafficking organization that sold the actor drugs containing fentanyl. macy pleaded guilty in april to possessing and distributing narcotics. >>> and rapper snoop dogg has canceled his anticipated shows due to the ongoing writers and actors strike. it was supposed to mark the 30th anniversary of his doggie style album. ticketholders will receive automatic refunds according to a notice on the hollywood bowl's website. >>> we have breaking news now about an unusual moment that took place earlier today on capitol hill. >> it involved republican senate minority leader mitch mcconnell was. he was delivering remarks to reporters when he just suddenly stopped talking. watch this. >> we're on a path to finishing the nda this week, been good bipartisan cooperation, and a string of. >> the pause went on for a while. let's get right to nbc news congressional correspondent julie tsirkin. you were at that news conference. you were standing right there.