(for the 100th anniversary of Mark Twain’s death, April 21, 1910) This poem recently won first place in the Big River Writing Contest sponsored by Chesterfield Arts and Stages St. Louis. The contest celebrates Mark Twain & the Missouri River Valley region. It is you, the spinner and weaver, we see big and brash and full of life a painter with the finest and sharpest of tools a splendid fool squatting like a tired but ever-watchful sentry on the corner …