Bob, please put me down for a copy of the first printing of your book. May I suggest a title (always the hardest part)? How about "Bad Verse Gets Worse".
I hope you will write a Foreword about how we all discouraged you and said you couldn't do it, but you persisted and the reader is holding the proof in his and her hands and no one should ever give up.
I always dutifully read the Forewords and Prefaces and Introductions, and Afterwords and Index of First Lines and when they are heroically worded like yours will be, it brings tears to my eyes and hope to my thumping heart.
I am devoted to Lewis Carroll and Ogden Nash and I think your flimsy little offerings are very like a whale. Honest I do.
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