“Oh to write like this Miss D”
(Better known as Emily),
She cried, in best trochaic time ,
“I can’t two lines together rhyme.”
You’re doing all right, lady; see,
Neither could your Emily…
Your cats don’t have to all be Persians
If you go in for bad inversions…
Get in everybody’s hair!
Have a phantom love-affair…
Avoid what looms as controversial,
Regard a sale as too commercial–
With these traits, you ‘ ll blunder on
Recognition–when you’re gone…
by Ray Romine Monday, October 14, 1946
