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First line is a default title for poems. However, if I printed the format

Monday March 6, 2006, Buzz Fugazi


header: title

you would run

header: title

instead of

title

and you would say

you wrote "header title."

and that is what I published.

Furthermore, this e-mail plays poetic license

with the proper use of quotations

SEE: Strunk and White, Elements of Style.

Glimpse into a lost world of people who knew how to write about writing.

That was back in the days before internet disproved the theory about getting enough Chimpanzees banging on typewriters to get Shakespeare. I give a fuck if Shakes was anti-Semite or not. The Brit Thespian had chops with the fountain pen. Fountain pen? That's style by itself, but King Lear? Give me a fucking break. I'm supposed to write the sequel to Hamlet?

I can't even answer Death of a Salesman and The Ice-man Cometh. Those guys knew how sad we were before we were born. O'Neil was making fun of me 50 years before I was born.

But even I write better than most of the chimps out there, but there are a hell of a lot of good ones and they got me back into the whole racket by inspiration. Blame them, not me. The buck doesn't stop here. Check my empty wallet, it will vouch for me. I gotta pay the vig to the man. Work makes freedom. G-d help me I love it sometimes.

With internet