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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 -- ---------------------------- Ken Wolman http://awfulrowing.wordpress.com http://opensalon.com/blog/kenneth_wolman http://wearethecure.org/friends/cids-memory-p-394.html