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Salient: Victoria University of Wellington Students' Newspaper. Vol. 32, No. 15. 1969.

[introduction]

The following poem is in reply to the poetry published in Salient 15.

"Frankly the poem reeks", writes Peter J. Needham, in a covering letter.

"But so does the subject.

"Unlike some, I consider treating diabolic subjects in angelic terms makes for high satire.

"Why brush a corpse with violets when you can kick it in the head?" the letter said.