The poet of comic persuasion
Will sense condescension at times
From oh-so-so "serious" writers
Unversed in both humor and rhymes.
Iambic tetrameter's dated,
They sniff. Anapestics? Passé!
And limericks? Thank God The New Yorker
Rejects juvenilia today!
Alas, they forget Dorothy Parker
And frankly the great Ogden Nash,
Who said more in two metered couplets
than all those who, when closing, go off on a tangent,
extending the line and then filling whole pages
with angst-laden free balderdash.