Most of the candidates plan a round of voter meeting-and-greeting for Tuesday morning -- creating a sense of casualness that belies what will be happening at their campaign headquarters.
That hey-what-the-hell casualness extends to Tweedy, whose tendency to start each of his singer-songwriter meditations with the same "Dust in the Wind" chord progression is almost confrontationally laid back.
Charles Bukowski, who died in 1994, shares with Mr Simic a quality which is highly characteristic of American verse from Walt Whitman on a casualness of address, some feeling that the person speaking to us is the not-so-perfect human being next door.