Daniel Tiger is grey today because I believe that it is fair-use for an artist to build on work from the past. We used to have a culture in this country of using the past to build the future, a culture that has scared big business since the beginning and is increasingly being legally attacked. [...]

In the middle of August he came into town
As dry as a bone from the sun beating down
He walked past the tables out back to the sink
He said he was broke, but he’d kill for a drink
Young Janice the waitress she cut him some pie
She said it’s to die for and laughed in his eyes
He [...]

My candle burns at both ends; It will not last the night; But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends- It gives a lovely light!
- from ‘Fist Fig’ (1920)