Epitaph Pillows

Francis P. Weston 1935-2001: I'm fine, thanks. How are you?

"In the first place, it isn't "maddening crowd.' It's 'madding crowd.' "

"Too bad about old Ainsworth. Published and published, but perished all the same."

"You're going to hate yourself."

"Bah, I could've written a better dénouement in my sleep."

"Meet The Author"

"Do me next."

Edgar Allen Poe

1599: Shakespeare's Agent knew what the public wanted

One Man's Meat is Another Man's Poetry

"Once upon a midnight dreary / while I pondered weak and weary."

"Thanks to my wedding planner, everyone in the wedding is still talking to each other."

"Counsel for prose is overruled. Poetry, you may continue."

"Now I really hate poetry."

Why we need poetry. . .

"My novel is not a doorstop!"

"It turns out everyone here is self-published."

When the world is Mud-luscious - e.e. cummings

Wedding Day Itinerary.

John Bunyan

The Grasshopper's Feast: A Prophetic Vision

"As this is a civil ceremony, I'd rather you took the vows without swearing."

Omar Khayyam Meets Trader Joe

Blue Stockings - Female poet who has not sold any of her books

Emily Dickinson: Mime - "I think she's saying something about death."

Dating an English Major

Eagle (The Divine Comedy).

The Forbidden Joyce Kilmer

'You have to Marvell eh - 'annihalating all that's made to a green thought in a green shade.''

Letters escape from a caged book.

"Oh, this old thing?"

"She'll have a semi-wizened, double ristretto with a dot of quail's milk - and please recite a poem while you make it."

Cafe Momus from La Boheme

"The rolling wheels...the ringing bells...signal the deliciousness of summer."

The Canine's version of cans tied to the back of a wedding car driving off with Cats attached