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The Peaceable Mongoose, by James Thurber, read by Keith Olbermann

03-06-2011 at 09:54:57 PM

The Peaceable Mongoose

Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does.

Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997) U.S. poet.