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The reading was over.
The elite crowd came forward to greet Hugo.
As they thinned away from the table where he sat, I approached.
Babbled nervously. Told him I was a former UM student of his.
Thanked him for teaching me so much. Told him about my Con-
dor and other novels. Thanked him again.
The bulldog frowned. Peered at me with those keen steel eyes
filled with the ghosts of thousands of students beyond his classes
I took at UM.
"Ahh," he said. "I think…I think I remember you now."
He smiled his joy at one of his having gotten this far as a
prose-slinger.
As his Cosmos handler encouraged my departure, Hugo said:
"Wait!"
Then with the gruff laughter that carried him through life told me:
"Tell them (the publishing world) to start paying more to poets!"
Ahh, the timeless rebel plea in that year when The Brains re-
leased their rock 'n' roll anthem "Money Changes Everything."
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