James Joyce once said that everyone starts out as a poet, then realizes
>it's too hard. For those of us with the hubris to keep writing verses that
>will seldom reach the exalted status the great works do (much less buy
>dinner or cover a mortgage), there's a great joy in the absurdity of one's
>enterprise. It's the joy derived from true wonder at poetry's redemptive
>quality, like taking your Little League
>slugger bat into the cathedral of Yankee Stadium.
Bob, that I see, esp the bat, being a baseball fan and all.
Thanks.
Gary
Feb guest is TE Ballard and Gar does garbage at:
http://gardawg.homestead.com/gardawg.html,
Poets for Peace. ˇPoemas sí, balas no!
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