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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
JUST AS GOOD, by WALT MASON Poet's Biography
First Line: You write a book that makes a hit; it's full
Last Line: Letters.
Subject(s): Authors And Authorship; Books; Writing & Writers; Reading
First Line: You write a book that makes a hit; it's full
Last Line: Letters.
Subject(s): Authors And Authorship; Books; Writing & Writers; Reading
YOU write a book that makes a hit; it's full of happy phrases; and readers all
refuse to quit a-singing of its praises. The novel fan your volume buys,
wherever he can strike it; and then the Just As Gooders rise, and write some
books "just like it." The country's inundated with your type of sparkling story;
and Jones and Brown and Jinks and Smith are borrowing your glory. The Just As
Gooder lies in wait for all who gain attention, and all their curves he'll
emulate, with gall too fierce to mention. If you invent a garden gate, that has
all others beaten, the Just As Gooder makes its mate before his grub he's eaten.
If you turn out a type of pome, you have the same old trouble; the Just As
Gooder rushes home, in haste to write its double. If you've a cold—such
ailments rise, at divers times, and curse one—the Just As Gooder sits and
lies, and says he has a worse one. The Just As Gooder trails along, like doom,
behind his betters, and makes a mess of Art and Song, Mechanics, Commerce,
Letters.
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