I subscribe to NPR ‘s “The Writer’s Almanac,” which delivered this funny-true-to-life poem to my mailbox today. If you subscribe, you can click on a link to hear Garrison Keillor read the poem of the day, and each day there are interesting facts about various writers and historical figures related to that particular date in history. Today, for example, I learned how Samuel Clemens came by the name Mark Twain, and how his only surviving child marked Twain’s grave with a fitting memorial. But the poem really made me smile this morning, though …

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