| Alfred Kreymborg, ed. Others for 1919. 1920. | | | | Poetry | | By Alfred Kreymborg |
| | | LADISLAW the critic | |
| is five feet six inches high, | |
| which means | |
| that his eyes | |
| are five feet two inches | 5 |
| from the ground, | |
| which means, | |
| if you read him your poem, | |
| and his eyes lift to five feet | |
| and a trifle more than two inches, | 10 |
| what you have done | |
| is Poetry— | |
| should his eyes remain | |
| at five feet two inches, | |
| you have perpetrated prose, | 15 |
| and do his eyes stoop | |
| —which Heaven forbid!— | |
| the least trifle below | |
| five feet two inches, | |
| you | 20 |
| are an unspeakable adjective. | | | | |
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