Ken,
that's just brilliant! And wonderfully told.
best
Randolph
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kenneth Wolman" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Monday, October 02, 2006 9:15 PM
Subject: Re: [POETRYETC] A barely adequate number of books
> Jon Corelis wrote:
>> P.S. Please someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I seem to remember
>> reading
>> that Donne and Marvell, among many other notable poets, never published a
>> line of verse in their lives. (I'm not sure if this applies to their
>> Latin
>> verses though -- were things like that also circulated mostly in
>> manuscript?)
>>
> I'm not going to correct you, Jon:-). Another of my day jobs came to an
> end last Tuesday, someone suggested to me in blessed naivete that I write
> poetry for money. <pause> The doctor said the stomach hemorrhage I got
> from laughing until I vomited was potentially fatal, but would have been
> less cosmetically damaging than laughing my ass off.
>
> Ken
>
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> DO NOT ADJUST YOUR MIND: IT IS REALITY THAT IS MALFUNCTIONING
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