[New-Poetry] hate

[Mark Weiss]

>And the ever multiplying number of Poet Laureates, coming soon to a 
>locality near you. Investment banking firms, deprived of large 
>bonuses, have begun to honor senior managers with one-year 
>appointments like 'Poet Laureate of the 64th Floor' (as reported in 
>the Wall Street Journal).

>On this one I respectfully disagree. It's not that there are too 
>many laureates, but an insufficiency of monarchs. If there's a Poet 
>Laureate of the 64th Floor shouldn't there be at least a king or 
>queen of same, not to speak of jesters, equerries, concubines etc?

Why is the above in quotes? Only the shadow knows the ways of computers.

An Insufficiency of Monarchs, it occurs to me, is like a gaggle of 
guess or a hearing of lamas.

Mark, who spreadeth wisdom.