Far other reasons urge me to reveal

My feelings on this matter—to assail your

Too common practice, and say why I feel

Your daily efforts are a daily failure;

Your paper by its columns and its size confuses me,

And worse—there's nothing in it in the least amuses me.

Can you indeed in seriousness suppose—

To me, I tell you, naught could be absurder—

That anywhere at all there can be those

Who read the noisome details of a murder,