(Yes, God, you rotten Roman Catholic)

To put his hypothetical conceptions

Of what a poor young poetaster would think

Into his own damned shape, and then to attack it

To his own great contemplative satisfaction.

What have I done, O God,

That so much bitterness should flop on me?

Social Reformer! That’s the beggar’s name.

He’d have me write bad novels like himself.

Yes, God, I know it’s after closing time;