Miss Snooks, Poetess
by Stevie Smith
Miss Snooks was really awfully nice
And never wrote a poem
That was not really awfully nice
And fitted to a woman,
She therefore made no enemies
And gave no sad surprises
But went on being awfully nice
And took a lot of prizes.
From Me Again: Uncollected Writings of Stevie Smith, published by Virago Press in 1981 and Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 1982.