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Nobody asked me.
2.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti should get a lifetime appointment (and then some!).
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I don't want to hobnob with the Secretaries of State and Defense and pretend I like the Kiplingesque poems they like. I don't want to talk about the objective correlative with the President and Vice President, nor explain oxymorons to smart-bombing generals.
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I'd have to go on PBS and read Christmas poems!
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I couldn't say "fart" in public!
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My mama didn't raise no fool!
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It would take the edge off. An artist ain't crap without an edge.
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