In an effort to stifle a creditor,
I sent some verses to ‘n editor,
Who mailed them back with a little note:
“Get yourself a name first, son”, he wrote.
So I called on several more Eds., in person,
And each a little than the last was worse’n–
“I’d like to, lad, but I wouldn’t durst–
You’re a bit raw: get some experience first.”
Experience, dear editors, is what I crave–
But ADVICE is all that you guys me gave:
Some more advice, please, to me impart–
Just how does an EDITOR GET HIS START?
written in 15 minutes at bedtime…
by Ray Romine Saturday, May 1, 1943
