Quoting Poetry Gifts

"Not too bad, except that my heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains my sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk. And you? Are you okay?

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

"That's the guy I hired to read Proust for me."

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

"The menu just says fried fish, but may I give you a more compelling, surprisingly lyrical description?"

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

"You're going to hate yourself."

"Meet The Author"

"Do me next."

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

"I didn't finish the proof but I did write this poem about my struggle."

Edgar Allen Poe

Historical memory is on life support.

Shakespeare does stand-up comedy in the round.

One Man's Meat is Another Man's Poetry

"Now I really hate poetry."

"No writers were harmed or mistreated in the preparation of this story."

1599: Shakespeare's Agent knew what the public wanted

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

'Alas, poor Yorick, I knew you well. But dude, you're creeping me out, so I gotta un-friend you!'

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

"I gotta be me!"

Why we need poetry. . .

"My novel is not a doorstop!"

"Je suis Descartes, donc, je pense."

Cow jumping over the moonshine.

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

Updated Nursery Rhyme #27.

William Shakespeare a.k.a. Francis Bacon, Earl of Essex....

The Grasshopper's Feast: A Prophetic Vision

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

"To paraprase Nietzsche, there is no pleasure with out pain au chocolat."

John Bunyan

"Out damn Spot

T. S. Eliot Meets Beavis And Butthead