so, and there have been, you know, texas presiden tasenors. i think the first two-lineú poem i wrote in the nation beusi aledh i was offered $100 a poem, which i di't thik s very much until i realized that poets in the united states are basically paid by the line and the highest payer then was the new yorker at $10 a line. >> so that's not bad actually. >> well, if you wre o-neoem you're the highest paid poet... >> that's it. >> ...in the country. >> yeah. >> and so i would do that wh iand g tt buzz you get from working at the absolute top dollar. [laughter] and, and i think the first one was when lloyd bentssn of texas was appointed secretary of the treasury and i wrote a po clea orhiory of lloyd bentsen's relations with special interest groups, which was the man is known for pro quo quidness. in texas, that's how folks do bidness. [laughter] iinof knew bidness was coming actually. [laughter] >> $50 a line. >> $50 a line is not bad. >> no, no. >> that's pretty gooo. ad,ouno a wha two bush presidents, one of them got a two-line poem when his c