You're a literary great
Who should've won a Pulitzer Prize
I would never cannibalize
Or impair
A single hair
Of your amazing opus
Still a lot of scribblers
Soon discover what they write for the screen
Isn't really right for the screen
So I intervene.
etc.
"The Buddy System", lyrics by David Zippel
City of Angels
Faced with these Loreleis, what man can moralize!