Poem: Rejecting Rejection

Another literary rejection: This one says I’ve not really paid my dues

Fair enough, I can’t really even pay my bills

and this is all I really know – that I like – how how to do

I’ll get round to paying dues when I’ve got a clear slate.

Reading the way in which each old guy tells

you “no”, is only teasingly great

afterwards, when you’ve

re-read the rejection

you…