Aspiring Roethke

[Brownlie]

Hey Brownlie-

Don't forget to make up parts about romping waltzes, and ears scrapping buckles, and countenances that can't unfrown themselves.  

I don't know that I'd want to be an aspiring Roethke.  Because, of course, he's dead.

... Mark

Well, I suppose it's a good thing i'm not the speaker. Roethke is a good writer who is often anthologized in creative writing textbooks.  This doesn't have some of those enduring images because it's sub par.