Why Ist It That Way? Poem by Stanley Cooper

Artists who draw cartoons are cartoonists
Musicians who play bassoons, are bassoon-ists
Players of violins are violinists-flute players flutists
Then why aren’t drummers drum-ists?

Could the writer of Haiku be a Haiku-ist
Or the rider of a bike a bike-u-ist?

Why are linguists not language-ists
Or photographers photo-ists?

Who conjures these very English-isty rules list?
Most probably an English lingu-isty fool-ist