“I have gotten bad news and am much the worse for it.“I’ve just found out I’m not the nation’s poet laureate.“I made a great effort. I put up a good fight.“But instead the job went to a guy named Charles Wright.“Burma Shave.” The preceding stanza should tell you I got hosed.
Yarbrough: Waxing poetic despite laureate snub
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