By the time I was fourteen the nail in my wall would no longer support
the weight of the rejection slips impaled upon it. I replaced the nail with a spike
and went on writing.
--- Stephen King
Next rejection letter I get,
I'm gonna answer, Dear Sir:
I'm not surprised that you find my lines
unfit for publication.
Rhyme and making sense both seem
beneath your education.
And a reading of your own work proves
you've a little infatuation
with high art
that makes you look smart
and leaves the heart
19 comments:
I fear you grow tired of hearing this but...WOW! I'm sorry my vocabulary is so limited.
Amen, hallelujah, & pass the grits & gravy. You've touched upon a pet peeve of mine: so-called highbrow (stinking, rotten) poetry that not even Stephen Hawking could understand...on one of his good days. Why write poetry if NOBODY can understand it? And why PUBLISH the crap & skip over our masterpieces????? :-) I hate 99% of the poems I've read in The New Yorker (at the library...there's not enough good content to subscribe).
THANK YOU, MZ. I'd love to see your poetry in any publication. I'm sitting here reading "Gemini/Scorpio/Capricorn". Truth!!! xo
Getting right to the heart of the matter!
Yeeeessssss!
Bravo!
YES, YES and YES!!!!! And no one says it better!!!
Perfect 55! :D
Awesome quote and poem MZ!
Zinggg! And another fifty dollar phony bites the dust!
Thank goodness someone 'splained it to me. I thought I was just uneducated : )
Give it as it is. It certainly comes with gusto! Well penned MZ!
Hank
Sadly, too many people have that infatuation.
if his eyes don't burn... they should ~
Well said! I do not think that editors and other doyennes of the literary world really have a finger on the pulse of the modern trends in poetic expression. It is a closed shop for cronies and pseudo-intellectuals.
(That's my P.S. to your letter.)
Love love love.
So much writing that warrants publication today leaves my heart alone. And (my opinion)some work coming out of MFA programs all sounds (reads) the same. Poetry should move you, strum a cord in our shared human experience, not make you feel.....empty and bewildered.
Nice! We'd all like to write that letter, I think – rejecting the rejection.
Ha, I avoid rejection letters by never submitting, but sending an answer like this would give me some satisfaction. ;-)
I think I would pay to see what those final lines would do to the face of the one sending the rejection letters...
Amen! Never mind the critics. Keep arting!
I'd like to borrow that!
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