[New-Poetry] "wet socks and gin before breakfast"

[Bob Grumman]

Chris Lott wrote:
> And why not readings of the latest in home plumbing and
> crotch-cleaning and demos of gluten free cooking and coffee table
> construction? We can have financial analysts reading formulae
> regarding annual variable interest and tax effects. There's no end to
> the excitement of the answers to that stimulating question: why not
> something else?
>
> c
I was making the point that poets, like mathematicians but unlike the 
people you mention, are for the intelligent few, not for moron events 
like the inauguration.  So no one should bewail the fact that poets 
don't always get a place at events like inaugurations.

--Bob G.