Mark Weiss wrote:
> I'm guessing that 95% of the poets quoted trained in MFA programs and
> now teach in them. I recognized the names of only four or five, but
> there are now something like 20,000 "licensed" poets in the US.
>
> Mark
Licensed or licentious?
The *original* Clarabelle the Clown on the ancient children's TV show,
"Howdy Doody," was not Bob Keeshan, who went on to play Captain
Kangaroo, but a gentleman (ha!) named Dayton Allen. Allen had somewhat
indiscriminate tastes for women. One night a New York State trooper
spotted a car pulled over on a parkway shoulder just north of New York
City. The car was rocking back and forth. Aha! The cop turned his
flashlight into the car and found Allen *in flagrante*
something-or-other with a young lady who worked for the TV station. The
cop snapped "Let me see your license!"
Allen looked up at the policeman and asked (presumably disingenuously)
"You mean I can get a license for this?"
Licensed....
Ken
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Ken Wolman
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