🚀 go-pugleaf

On Thursday, August 1, 2019 at 5:55:10 PM UTC-4, Peter J Ross wrote:
> I wish I could write modern verse,
> the kind all the magazines print.
> They say it's a fact nothing's worse
>       than a rhyme;
>       and this crime
>    is the reason why I'm
> temporarily totally skint.
>
> Perhaps I should study Ted Hughes's
> most recently printed collection?
> Alas, there's no word from the Muses,
>       which explains
>       why my pains
>    bring no visible gains
> but innumerable slips of rejection.
>
> But beware! if unpublished I die
> (and already I feel somewhat liverish)
> a Vengeance will plunge from the sky
>       to exact
>       without tact
>    its revenge for the pact
> between critics and spewers of gibberish.
>
>
>
> PJR, 1994, revised 2019

Bravo!

It seems you were capable of writing some excellent light verse before you gave in to the modern faction.