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Salient: Victoria University Students' Paper. Vol. 25, No. 6. 1962.

Out of the Mouths of Babes and Sucklings—Come the Words you Shouldn't have said in the First Place

Out of the Mouths of Babes and Sucklings—Come the Words you Shouldn't have said in the First Place

I think I'll start a magazine
That deals with fashions, modes and such—
But on the literary scene
So everyone can keep in touch.
I think the thing would meet a need,
Dame Fashion crops up everywhere;
She dictates what the people read
As much as what the people wear.
The present trend's a fashion must
(And overseas it's met success)—
A tale of violence, hate or lust
By some young teenage authoress.
The basic tone is soulless grey
Patterned with men that do not feel—
This, so the current pundits say.
We must admire, for this is real.
The book must show the moral rot
And degradation of our age;
But pose an answer It must not
For pessimism's all the rage.
We must not postulate nor find
A natural grandeur in the heart,
Nor let the comment spring to mind
"It's sordid, yes, but is it art?"
And have we come to this? and must
Our taste of honey turn to acrid dust?

R.R.