Sunday, October 13, 2024

rejection letters from the New Yorker

i save all
the rejection slips,
that
keep coming in
year after year.
each
new short story
rejected by someone
in New York,
or San Francisco,
Iowa or Maine.
i paste them to the wall
over
my desk.
next to all the break
up notes
from lovers long gone,
that i used to get.

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