Tonight, wannabe Teton ropeguns can learn everything they need to know to succeed in these parts: racking, cleaning, and stacking.

That’s right, Stephen Koch is going to demonstrate how to be all you can be as a Jackson Hole dishwasher.

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While at lunch today, Lauren Whaley and I were discussing local Jackson restaurants that don’t recycle, a common and lamentable fact of life here in a town that only exists due to its proximity to breathtaking scenery. A restaurateur not recycling in Jackson is like, oh, I don’t know, a restaurateur at Waikiki Beach going out to the beach and taking a dump in the ocean every day. It’s thoughtless, inconsiderate, and in the end, self-defeating.

So while we’re feeling good about ourselves, let’s check out a pretty amazing photographic project, on the same subject.

Former Poetry Czar Billy Collins will be speaking at 7 p.m. on Monday, June 4, 2007 at the Jackson Hole High School Auditorium.

Go by the Library today with your library card to pick up FREE tickets.

This is not your garden variety Poet Laureate. Thumbing through a volume of his poetry, I happened upon “Taking off Emily Dickinson’s Clothes.” Here are the last two stanzas:

So I could plainly hear her inhale
when I undid the very top
hook-and-eye fastener of her corset

and I could hear her sigh when finally it was unloosed,
the way some readers sigh when they realize
that Hope has feathers,
that Reason is a plank,
that Life is a loaded gun
that looks right at you with a yellow eye.

Rowr!

We were somewhere around the Platforms, at the mouth of Garnet Canyon, when the drugs began to take hold.