Wednesday, August 12, 2009
[1781 - Robert Mills, architect (Washington Monument),
born in Charleston, South Carolina]
[1849 - Abbott Thayer, artist, born in Boston, Massachusetts]
[1877 - Thomas Alva Edison completes first phonograph]
[1880 - Christy Mathewson, HoF baseball pitcher, born in Factoryville, Pennsylvania]
[1881 - Cecil B. deMille, producer, director, born in Ashfield, Massachusetts]
[1892 - Alfred Lunt, Tony Award-winning actor,
born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin]
[1910 - Jane Wyatt, Emmy Award-winning actress,
born in Campgaw, New Jersey]
[1911 - Cantinflas (Mario Moreno), comedian,
actor, born in Mexico City]
[1972 - Last American combat ground troops leave Vietnam]
Real Poets
Self-anointed Poets never come.
From the unwashed proletariat.
Much in favor is the chosen one
Appointed as the Poet Laureate.
Nor do they bunk in at a Marriott.
Real Poets don't eat quiche.
They Lasso words with a Poet Lariat.
William's Whimsical Words:
Poorwilliam makes his rhymes.
But he cannot twirl a rope.
Pity him, as in these times,
Clearly he's beyond all hope.
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