meaning of 'The knights of the red pen' Hi, the poem below is the acknowledgement of a story book and I need some help to understand the meaning of two parts of it. 1) The knights of the red pen, 2) The paperboys and papergirls of all of my requests "And so the story’s finished now, The pages will turn blank, Perhaps we’ll meet another time, And for that, I thank: You, of course, the reader who reached the very end! The people of facts and figures, The knights of the red pen, The paperboys and papergirls of all of my requests, The muses, yes, the muses—for never making any sense! And finally, the universe, for allowing it all to be, For I suppose things could have gone quite differently, If I were, instead, a bee!"