Smiling Ghost

Virginia Woolf – now there was a literary suicide. Noble and refned. Nothing like that huckstress Sylvia Plath.

The Seven Sisters stick together. Each night Orion chases them across the sky and each night they get away. Iconic.

Look on my works, ye puny, and rejoice

I'm glad the house of Percy still holds the Duchy of Northumberland. Do they still consort with Welsh magicians and the church to seize the English crown?

Ted Turner's body is decayed, but his classic movies still remain.

The events of 9/11 made a major stir in my village in the hills when a travelling balladeer brought us the news that friday.

Otis on tne Andy Griffith Show: gets drunk, wanders around, sleeps at fhe jail, and gets a plate of Aunt B's sunday roast delivered. Is it any wonder that young men should see him as a bero?

Oak is the heroic tree, willow the tragic, but which is the comic tree?

The Gay Halloween in my head: they're all dressed as flowers.

Don Quixote when Sancho makes a point by stringing together seven different proverbs.

Scaryoke turns into a meat raffle whenever I'm on the mic.

My poverty franchise is now lower middle class.

The King has granted the people a parliament and constitution on the condition that his clown Feste serves as prime minister.

The moon and the stars, the sea and the rain.

Special Accomodations? I require a sad clown and a mad fool to attend on me at all times.

The Irish Invincibles was one of the best names for a cladestine terrorist group. They were successful in their only action, and then the leader betrayed everyone, and was himself assassinated. So they could only beat themselves. They were invincible.

Harold Bloom to his editor: No blurb on the back cover, just my own pained grimace. That should give readers the right idea.

Chivalric gameshow called Boon or Bane

Peasant drone musician influenced by the lows of ambling kine and the wind.

When I move to Ireland I'm either going to become a bard or a cattle raider.