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Playing Sad Songs on the Piano.

'I can't write cheating songs because my wife's too insecure.'

Robert Alexander Schumann.

'Moon, June...'

Jerry Lordan

"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."

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

"You're going to hate yourself."

"Meet The Author"

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

Edgar Allen Poe

"Do me next."

1599: Shakespeare's Agent knew what the public wanted

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

"Now I really hate poetry."

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

One Man's Meat is Another Man's Poetry

Why we need poetry. . .

"My novel is not a doorstop!"

The Grasshopper's Feast: A Prophetic Vision

"Repent" "Give alms" "Resist temptation" "Pray for me" "Fasting" "Acts of service" "Sacrifice" "Abstain" "You are ashes" "You are dust" "No meat"

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

Red Letter Days - A declaration of love in public

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

John Bunyan

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

Omar Khayyam Meets Trader Joe

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

"Quoth the raven, 'Nevermore.'"

Letters escape from a caged book.

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

Dating an English Major

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

The Forbidden Joyce Kilmer