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Show PJ0T HIGH-PLACED AMBITION Magazine Poet Surely Could Not Be Accused of Having Too Strong Desire for Wealth. Apropos of Marshall R. Kermochan, who niakes $30 a year by writing music, a magazine poet said: "To make $30 a year out of music is pretty good. It's as much as I, a successful poet, make out of verse. "When they see my poetry in all the magazines people think that I live at the Ritz-Carlton. Alas, thev don't know the magazine poetry rates: "A young lady said to me the other day: " 'I like your poetry so much. I have often heard the expression beautiful as a poet's dream. Tell me, what are poet's dreams like?' " 'Well, my dear young lady,' I replied, re-plied, 'mine are usually about three square meals a day, clean linen and an occasional 5-cent cigar.' " |