Poets Resilient After English Cuts

By: James Kelly

Outlets: The Clock Online

Published: April 23, 2026

Words: 820

Last Updated: 1 month, 3 weeks ago

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Before Og the Caveman invented nicknames, every caveman was named Og, English Professor Paul Rogalus explained to Groovy Noodle patrons. And before Og named it “golf,” the game with the long stick and “some kind of egg … like a Pterodactyl egg” was simply called “boring game with stick.”

The Groovy Noodle-goers were well-acquainted with Og, the caveman inventor of poetry and the blues, a fixture of Rogalus’s writing. And so, with their macaroni and …

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