Robert (poete) had a charmed though traumatic life. In the middle of the Fifties (heard of them?) he was found abandoned on the steps of a well-known coffee house in Greenwich Village. It was called "Well-known Coffee House".
The owners found him when opening up one sunny morning in January 1954. Such were his humble beginnings.
As fate would have it the owners already had 3 children and they resented poete very much. Their tauntings still ring in his ears. All day long he would have to do their chores, while they played at their silly games. Yet at night when these awful ruffians were asleep, poete would listen to the readings of famous poets and hear the music of many a beatnick coming through the cracks in the floor of his small loft in the attic. This continued until the sixties (you MUST remember them) when a group of Beatniks now known as Hippies offered to take poete to San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district. There he spent his summers listening to the Byrds and chatting with George Harrison of the Beatles. Ravi Shankar also took him under his wings. Thus poete's education was being completed.
As the sixties ended (now do you remember them?) the seventies naturally began. Poete pretty much ignored them. When the eighties took over from the seventies, poete was quite an accomplished young man. Though he still had not acheived his fame and fortune in poetry. Most poetes of the eighties were stuck up snobs he thought. The suicide of many a lettered poet made him want not to be one, except when he was really depressed. But....Then the nineties bagan with the promise of ending in a new century! So surely this would be poete's great chance to become a world renown poet!! Finally, it had to be!! Yet disappointment still met poete at every turn. A few published poems did not satisfy his desires. Then a thought struck like lightening, burning him from the top of his head to the bottom of his feet. Maybe it was lightening....anyway he got on the Internet. That great medium of such promise as to change the world as he knew it! And the rest as they say- is History.

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