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I'd like to be a publisher, And publish massive tomes / Written in a massive style by blokes with massive domes -- / Science books, and histories of Egypt's day and Rome's, / Books of psycho-surgery to mine the minds of momes, / And solemn pseudo-psychic stuff to tell where Topsy roams / When her poor clay is put away beneath the spreading holms; / Books about electrocuting little seeds with ohms / To sternly show them how to grow in sands, and clays, and loams, / And bravely burst infinitives, like angry agronomes; / Books on breeding aeroplanes and airing aerodromes, / On bees that buzz in bonnets and the kind that build the combs, / Made plain with pretty pictures done in crimsons, mauves, and chromes; / And diagrams to baulk the brain of Mr. Sherlock Holmes.
I'd set the scientists to work like superheated gnomes, / And make them write and write and write until the printer foams / And lino men, made "loony", go to psychopathic homes.