I know...
Not the saga of your soul at grips with fate,
bleedingheart, for we have troubles of our own
nor the inside story of the campaign scandal, wiseguy,
for we were there ourselves, or else we have
forgotten it years ago
nor all the answers, oracle, to politics and life and love,
you have them but your book is out of date...
-- Kenneth Fearing, "Scheherazade"