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Some Remarks To A Struggling Poet---Circa, Say, Spring Of 1913
You write a statement phrase; followed by "all the day and night"---
which was superfluous, but necessary to the rhyme.
You do not understand enjambment at all: that is quite
apparent---just the way that lemon does not taste like lime.
You say that poetry ought to sound like a greeting card,
and writing any other way than that is just too hard.
Therefore you tell us that unrefined, unskilled poetry
is closer to the soul and will convey more honesty.
But having read your thoughts expressed in this crudest of strictures,
I think you should travel to Hollywood where they have need
of comic scripts for these new-fangled, slapstick motion pictures:
that is an effort at which you are most likely to succeed.
