Planetary Poet Pillows

Boss, what's your favorite planet? Saturn. No contest. A deadly, treacherous gas giant ringed by a gossamer halo of ice. It symbolizes both death and life. Both evil and good. It symbolizes existence itself. That's the description I've listed it by on realestate.com. I'm pretty sure you can't sell Saturn. Of course not. I'm selling a time-share on Titan. With a view of Saturn.

I hear he's a very sentimental planet. Yeah, it's a schmaltz world after all.

'Curiosity' discovers Mars was at one time like earth.

Expanding Sun engulfs Planets

"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"

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

"Do me next."

Edgar Allen Poe

"Now I really hate poetry."

One Man's Meat is Another Man's Poetry

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

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

1599: Shakespeare's Agent knew what the public wanted

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

Omar Khayyam Meets Trader Joe

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

"Quoth the raven, 'Nevermore.'"

The Forbidden Joyce Kilmer

Eagle (The Divine Comedy).

"Oh, this old thing?"

"Mum! - T.S. Eliot - 'Humankind cannot bear much reality'."

Dating an English Major

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

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

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

Letters escape from a caged book.