Here's one possible answer, Martin:
"About two hours a day."
Hal
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On Oct 14, 2007, at 9:12 AM, Martin Dolan wrote:
> Sad to say, I'd probably fail at such an opportunity. I have
> problems remembering my poems, even the better ones.
>
> "What do you write about?" is the question I seem to get. Haven't
> yet constructed a good answer.
>
> Martin
>
> Janet Jackson wrote:
>> Not long ago a taxi driver asked me to recite a poem in his cab
>> (going to the airport, and I'd mentioned I was going to a
>> poetry festival). Which I did and he really seemed to enjoy it.
>>
>> As I paid the fare I offered him a chapbook as a kind of a tip
>> (tipping is not usual here in Australia) but he insisted on
>> paying for it. (They're only $4)
>>
>> The cabbie was Polish -- I don't know if that means anything.
>>
>> The "what sort of poetry" question is painfully familiar.
>> I usually fish a chapbook out of my bag and show them!
>>
>> And "who's your favourite poet?". To which I reply, with some degree
>> of accuracy, "Louis Macneice", and watch the eyes glaze over.
>>
>> "Are you famous?" is another. Evidently not.
>>
>> Janet
>>
>>
>>> Well I don't usually say poet as I write other stuff too but I do
>>> find when
>>> people hear I'm a poet they want me to tell them what I write
>>> about (life,
>>> family, whatever strikes my fancy which leads to "but what about
>>> life?") and
>>> then more often times than not want me to recite.
>>>
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>> Allegedly, some kid poet came over to Robert Frost at some
>> gathering and introduced himself by saying "I'm a poet." Frost
>> replied "That's a praise word. I'd wait 'til someone else called
>> me that."
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