Youthful Indiscretion

Since Samuel Taylor Coleridge is considered to have been one of Britain's greatets poets, it is only natural that patriots should wish his more embarrassing effusions to be kept inside the country. Hence the Department for Cultchah, Murdoch and Lineker has been advised that a manuscript of an early poem should not be exported except at the right price. The piece is written in foreign and woke in content, so the Government would undoubtedly prefer it to remain where it can be safely put away and forgotten, rather than boorishly displayed by lesser breeds whose culture is still primitive enough to include literature, museums, and prejudice against the Atlantic slave trade.