Piano Playing Poet Pillows

"In closing, I'd just like to say you've been a great crowd, folks. Don't forget to tip your waitress, and I hope this final number breaks your heart the way show business broke mine."

"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."

Baby Piano

"Meet The Author"

Edgar Allen Poe

"Do me next."

Open mike night presents Sadie Cohen. Summer's almost over

Rhapsody in Blue.

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

"Well, that's the only song we know, so we can play it another two or three times, or we can cut our losses. Waddya say, Cleveland?"

"Hey, pal, let's hear 'Doggie in the Window' again, and this time play it like you mean it!"

Concert Pianist.

1599: Shakespeare's Agent knew what the public wanted

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

One Man's Meat is Another Man's Poetry

"Now I really hate poetry."

Felix Mendelssohn

Why we need poetry. . .

"My novel is not a doorstop!"

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

The Grasshopper's Feast: A Prophetic Vision

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

John Bunyan

'Wash your hands, it's time for your piano lessons.'

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

Omar Khayyam Meets Trader Joe

Letters escape from a caged book.

The Forbidden Joyce Kilmer

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

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

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

Cafe Momus from La Boheme