Dead Poets Society

Sylvia Plath wasn’t good at Home Ec..

Dylan Thomas lost his drinking bet.

Apollinaire died in the trenches.

Lorca was assassinated by firing squad.

By all accounts, Wallace Stevens had

a pretty normal life.

Cummings was imprisoned but got out.

Eliot was good to his last coffee spoon.

Ginsberg helped his fellow Beats…they

all passed without much fanfare.

Berryman jumped off of a bridge.

Brautigan performed the Hemingway maneuver.

Bly lived demented for a decade before he died….

he was outstanding, and a maniac.

Poetry is the reason I’m still alive.