Show the foot how much poetry can you write in a day mr demetric isa inquired the intelligent interviewer ah the amount varies madam re tiled the unhappy poet sometimes it tabes me halt a day to compose two lines and how much do you get for a poem persisted the unabashed one that again varies I 1 have received as much as 25 then the interviewer went through a mental calculation and reported the income ol 01 as 5 a year whereupon all the callow verse pro dubers in the country wrote to him to ask how they too could bask in the light of fame |