Publishing Under a False Name

Why hide one's identity?

Publishing Under a Fake Name

 

By Elton Camp

 

If it’s airs that the writer really wants to assume,

He can call his phony name a “nom de plume”

Although less presumptuous & means the same

Is the simple use of the expression “pen name”

 

But the thing that’s particularly puzzling to me

Is why writers don’t want folks their name to see

After, to think and choose words, people have striven

Credit for their writing they should want to be given

 

If another their hard work should try to plagiarize,

They would likely react with both anger & surprise

“Why that writing was what was done only by me.

How you dare to steal it is just more than I can see.”

 

So why on earth would any writer want to try

To give credit to a foolish name like “Poet Guy?”

If a write is littered with many an obscene word

One might well prefer that his name not be heard

 

Certainly, if I wrote something of which I’m ashamed

It would make sense that I wouldn’t want to be named

But a write that’s humorous of one of serious intent

To hide one’s name I can see no sensible argument