Thursday, August 11, 2022

the snow drifts of poetry

i take out the big bottle
of extra strength Tylenol.

a tall glass of cold water.
i have to sort through nine thousand

half baked poems
to find five or six to send to

The Sun Magazine.
they pay by the line and in

copies.
maybe with a few legitimate

publications
i can face the day better.

i'll show them.
i got your modern contemporary

confessional poetry
right here New Yorker.

i swallow two pills, gulp
down some water and dig in.

i hate everything i write
within an hour of writing it.

but somehow, by luck
or magic, divine intervention,

a few pop up worthy
of attempting

to publish.
those are usually the ones

that surprise me, and make
me say wow,

who wrote that? me?
no way.

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