Captain Goodwine one goes from being a poet to being an entertainer. I read my stuff in Florida once and the professor there told me, "you realize you're an entertainer now, don't you?" I began to feel bad about that remark because when the crowd comes to be entertained by you then you become somehow suspect. and so, another time, starting from Los Angeles we took to the air and the flight captain intro- duced himself as "Captain Goodwine," and thousands of miles later I found myself trans- ferred to a small 2-engine plane and we took off and the stewardess put a drink in my hand took my money and then hollered, "drink up, we're landing!" we landed took off again and she put another drink in my hand, took my money and then hollered, "drink up, we're landing!" the 3rd time I ordered 2 drinks although we only landed once more. I read twice that night in Arkansas and ended up in a home with clean rugs, a serving bar, a fireplace and professors who spoke about budgets and Fullbright scholarships, and where the wives of the professors sat very quietly without speaking. they were all waiting for me the entertainer who had flown in with Captain Goodwine to entertain them to make a move on someone's wife to break the windows to piss on the rug to play the fool to make them feel superior to make them feel hip and liberated. if I would only stick a cigarette up the cat's ass! if I would only take the willing co-ed who was doing a term paper on Chinaski! but I got up and went to my poet's bedroom closed the door took off my clothes went to bed and thereby entertaining myself the best way I knew how.