Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 116, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 October 1904 — Poor Place for Poets. [ARTICLE]

Poor Place for Poets.

Poet —I’m going t» leave this offensively practical country. It’s no place for poets. Friend—What’s happened? Poet—Yesterday I visited all the newspaper offices I could find In a suburban town, and at last succeeded in persuading an editor to take a poem at fifty cents. Well, I’d hardly reached the curbstone before I was arrested by the authorities for peddling g >ods without a license.