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K'tagogm-m, v. 1, issue 1, March 1945

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MIRROS FROM M'LO

A page of purloined poetry

We understand that a publication such as is distributed exclusively through the medium of an amateur press association partake somewhat of the nature of a privileged communication. That is it may publish for its limited circulation readerhood material that is copyright. There being no intention of commercial profit thereby, there being no denial of the copyright ownership, the whole matter becomes a questionable problem. Copyright laws are dubious at best--and so-- taking a chance, we shall from time to time publish here certain poems that happen to fit in with our moods or ideas. Thusly:

The Writing on the Wall

Rats, decent people in their nibbling way
Have read the notice on the churchyard wall.
"Rat Week next week!" they squeak. And that same day
An urgent parish conference they call.
"What can we do to check this inhumanity?"
They ask; and twitch their whiskers in debate.
Such methods, all admit, are sheer insanity,
Barbarous, unthinkable, and out of date.

I find it odd, my biped self, that these
Peace-loving rodents do not use our rational
And righteous arguments of guns and gas.
For though black rat and brown rat disagree,
And individuals quarrel in the mass
The Rat is resolutely international.

--Siegfried Sassoon
(Left Review, 1936)

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#5 MIRROS FROM M'LO A page of purloined poetry We understand that a publication such as is distributed exclusively through the medium of an amateur press association partake somewhat of the nature of a privileged communication. That is it may publish for its limited circulation readerhood material that is copyright. There being no intention of commercial profit thereby, there being no denial of the copyright ownership, the whole matter becomes a questionable problem. Copyright laws are dubious at best--and so-- taking a chance, we shall from time to time publish here certain poems that happen to fit in with our moods or ideas. Thusly: The Writing on the Wall Rats, decent people in their nibbling way Have read the notice on the churchyard wall. "Rat Week next week!" they squeak. And that same day An urgent parish conference they call. "What can we do to check this inhumanity?" They ask; and twitch their whiskers in debate. Such methods, all admit, are sheer insanity, Barbarous, unthinkable, and out of date. I find it odd, my biped self, that these Peace-loving rodents do not use our rational And righteous arguments of guns and gas. For though black rat and brown rat disagree, And individuals quarrel in the mass The Rat is resolutely international. --Siegfried Sassoon (Left Review, 1936)