Assertion

I hereby do assert the right to be
Identified as author of these works.
I can't employ a regiment of clerks
To watch for violations constantly,
So no one's standing there to oversee
The actions of some plagiarizing jerks
With loose lips, looser morals, evil smirks,
And cheap hearts, but I call that robbery.

I don't expect to make much money here;
The business of poetry is hard,
And all the poets I know have been scarred
By desperation, accident, or fear,
But copyright subsists, that much is clear,
In every single verse. Ask any bard.