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… At least that was the headline for an interview held in Lone Wolf, Oklahoma, with former US Poet Laureate Billy Collins talking to M. Scott Carter, for the CNHI «News Service» on the Rockwall Country Herald Banner, July 2009. Musing on his lack of peformance skills, Collins went on to say:

“I don’t believe anyone can really play Thelonious. He was too unique.”

Let’s hope these better poets come with a better vocabulary. Collins was appointed Laureate twice, both times by George W.Bush, a man whose verbal incapacity was far “too unique” for most.