All Comments on 'Why As a Boy He Stopped Writing Poems'

Duke Snider died today. He was 84.

Five, for the Duke.

http://uk.video.yahoo.com/watch/456784/2533611

Well written by I am clueless about baseball??

a living, breathing, heart-pounding poem and crushed the very life out of it trying to fit it into a straightjacket. the poem - the boy

we are lucky the boy took up writing again...

solid 5

is always a good read. Five.

...paraphrase - "they fuck us up, our elders do." Many an aspiring artist of one kind or another has had his/her candle of inspiration snuffed unintentionally by a careless word. As has been said, it's a good thing yours wasn't.

Tess

while it is always a good tactic to put dumb words in someone else's mouth "That's all very good, Master Smith..." I feel it is a strong 8 line poem about the Dodgers, but a mediocre sonnet about I'm not really sure.

Excellent. Now either Vrojse or I should take you to the cricket.