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.