Poetry Ponderers Mugs

"I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each. I told them to pipe down."

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

"My novel is not a doorstop!"

The Forbidden Joyce Kilmer

Paris' magnificent Trifle tower.

God not-too-happy with the Humans sticking a 'Closing DOWN Sale!' sign on planet Earth

A small number of people are afraid of heights, but there is an epidemic fear of widths.

"William Blake said you can see the whole world in a grain of sand, but he doesn't always make a lot of sense."

"I'm trying to forget a pussycat."

"This number goes out to all the little people I met on my way back down."

"I'm learning to live with existence."

Ten Commandments

'A man has to believe in something. I believe I'll have another drink!'

'As I recall you were the one who told him that he couldn't take it with him.'

Temporary and Permanent Writer's Block

A poem: With daylight's shift, winter draws near...

"Great, now we're lost."

Writer

Newton Discovers Surrealism.

Shakespeare considers alternatives to iambic pentameter

"In the room the women come and go. Talking of Michelangelo."

"Well, once you get your PhD on 'The Return of the Repressed in Early Jacobean Drama', then we;ll discuss how disappointed you are."

"Well, this must be as big as I'm supposed to get."

James Russell Lowell

Goalkeeping Dog

Two books. One liberates the mind, and appears to fly. The other entraps the mind, and appears as a snare trap

Ode to Nature.

'I don't have a single appointment between 1:30 and 2. Do you want me questioning the meaning of my existence?'

"Eve, do you realize that neither you nor I ever had a childhood?"

"I assumed it was writer's block but as I've never written anything I could be wrong."

"The arc of the moral universe."

"Well, son, in a way, I suppose Jesus was a trust-fund baby."