VERBAL FLY FISHING
Sir,-Preserve me from poetesses. However, since "Neutral," boggling at the job of producing a 17-line Pindaric ode on the subject of "Tomato Blight," has beaten the pistol with her lush sonnet on "A Summer Night," here goes for my own on the same subject. I hope that’s the last I hear about it: "A SUMMER NIGHT" (Freeman’s Bay, Auckand, N.Z.) The night is hot, the moon is like a red Just ripe tomato, and the breath of flowers Is baffled by a local sewage bed es (If "Neutral" only knew how maily hours It takes to write a somethin something sonnet. } Now if the subject were, let’s say, The anti-classic bee in ‘ Neutral’s" bonnet, Or snobs, or amateur poets who play At writing flowery sonnets, I’d be glad To waste the time. The only consolation Is now there’s only three more lines to add. And if you knew the verbal constipation I’ve suffered writing this, I’m sure you'd quite Appreciate the ‘fact that I don’t care whether it stans, rhymes or makes sense, and that further, I’m fed to the teeth. with ‘‘Neutral’"’ andthe whole idea of writing a sonnet on "A Summer Night."
WINCHESTER
(Auckland).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 4, Issue 90, 14 March 1941, Page 4
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199VERBAL FLY FISHING New Zealand Listener, Volume 4, Issue 90, 14 March 1941, Page 4
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