There are different ways of building a narrative. I didn't want to foreground authorial presence in the poem, and I also didn't want to get into biography. I thought that building a broken narrative allowed me to throw in things that wouldn't have worked if I were setting up a straight narrative. You have the ability to open up narratives, and you can experiment with what a narrative actually is. We all go through a poem to know what's going on.
Music can be politics, fashion, socialization, lifestyle, or religion in a sense.
There are all sorts of things that revolve around music. Someone asked me once about the narrative of the blues, and asked me hypothetically if a Jewish writer could write a blues. You Don't Miss your Water, in which each poem takes a song title for its own title. Basically, I wanted to use the idea of those songs as an emotional anchor or starting-off point. You don't need to know these songs to understand my poems, but if you do, you might get a deeper appreciation for them.