The Best Of Robert Service

I bought a book of collected works from the air little airport shack in King Sam in Alaska they sell Robert Service books yeah yeah because they want they're like oh I think they wanted everybody who likes to like lay claim are they just like he's Alaskan now you're saying that you're down on you're saying you don't like his poetry because it all rhymes no no no oh okay this was I just bought his book while I was waiting on our plane out to the peninsula to go hunt uh brown bears and it was just like winter would not leave and spent a ton of the trip you know shoulder to shoulder with three other dudes in a tent that sounds like a Bob Service poem oh yeah and so I was super into Robert Service and just but I had like reading that book front to back 12 different times on that trip I'd kind of come to the conclusion that there's no way this guy got stationed in the Yukon because he was a crackerjack banker you know I figured like he was put out there because he kind of had like some drug or alcohol problems and then you know all of his poems talking about like the working class it just kind of got ingrained in my brain that this guy probably did what a lot of poets and writers do is die a bad death somewhere destitute yeah drunk under some bridge exactly but that's not the case at all he turned out to be quite quite the straight arrow really yeah and I didn't learn that until just recently so it made some money off his writing he was the most wealthy writer in Paris at one time well what yeah that's saying something I would have rather especially in his death he died drunk under a bridge he's way less interesting he's way less interesting this way right if he would yeah because a lot of poets nowadays are too lazy to rhyme all their poems and that guy had that work ethic that needs to go into like rhyming that stuff out to the bitter end this guy not like he had a pretty sizable fortune going and then he couldn't when world war one broke out he couldn't join up because of his physical condition so he joined the red cross and kind of like Hemingway yeah Litter Bearer and won a bunch of medals he sounds like too good a dude to be a poet like a poet should be under a bridge drunk drunk like Hemingway screaming at people yeah just were you did you just use the word Litter Bearer yeah