To the Literary Staff of a Certain N.Z. Newspaper

If a volume of verse
should perchance be published,
discount it.
(Keeping in view the source of your "screw" and other founts of revenue)

Say, good loons in your costive "notice"
(small wonder when poetry = lotus)
that it is marred
by that "obscurity"
common to all "modern poetry."

Above All
Do not attempt to understand it.
That would be both unnatural and fatal.

—J.D.F.