My stuff , the Editors tell me, SMELLS–
The first small verse YOU send out SELLS.
Should I get religion, and pray?
Or drop verse and adopt croquet?
Or interest myself in Ballet?
Or take up the making of hay
(In an alcoholic way?)
If you sell once more, I’ll end my life
With a duller-than-dull old pocket-knife.
The best way out I can see for me,
Is to purchase your blank-blank recipe!
by Ray Romine Friday, September 27, 1946
