Come one, come all, you poets wise,
pen careful words to win our prize:
a chapbook sent to paying losers.
Clean copy with SSAE
close attention will guarantee,
since beggars can't be choosers.
Attach ten bucks as reading fee.
Well-known judges will surely see
yours the best of all they read.
How much happier Keats would be--
Wordsworth, Edna, Pope, Emily D.--
had they had us to intercede.
[If only a thousand pay our fee,
that's 7 grand for costs, plus 3
more for us, who kindly publish.]
These the marvels of literature!
Waste no talent on bets less sure,
writing other kinds of rubbish.
Come one, come all, you poets wise,
pen careful words to win our prize:
a chapbook sent to paying losers.
----
printer, `one who prints'
Publisher, `one who publishes'
to publish, `prepare and issue; make generally known'
Writer, `one who writes'

LI MIN HUA has edited special issues of College English and Margin and authored four poetry volumes Sunspots (Lotus Press, Detroit, 1976) Midnight Lessons (Samisdat, 1987), Lutibelle's Pew (Dragon Disks, 1990), and Queers! for Christ's Sake! (Dragon Disks, 2003). All Min Hua’s papers are collected by the University of Michigan.