I don't remember any poem well enough to be able to recite it from
memory. except Red Wheelbarrow
KS
On 14/10/2007, Janet Jackson <[log in to unmask]> 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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