“Daddy, I’m gonna be a Writer”–
Daughter, your supervision should’ve been tighter!
Turn around,now, and be a cook or a seamstress,
Or, say, a weldress or even a teamstress;
But if you must write (and all the world knows this)–
Cut out the verses, and stick to the prose, sis.
For no matter how fluently you may tell it,
If you say it in verse, I DARE YOU TO SELL IT!!
by Ray Romine Wednesday, April 19, 1944
