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Why I’m Not Submitting to your Magazine

John C. Erianne

Sure kid, I’m flattered by
the offer and in another life,
I might be persuaded
to stuff something
in an envelope
for you.

But, you see, I’ve
learned the meaning
of futility -- beat my head
against its stoney
silence daily for
40 years.

Literary rags offer
a dubious kind
of fame and

on my worst day
I cannot write
badly enough
or be well-liked
enough for
most of those
places to publish
me.

And although
I am sure you are
good people,

I doubt you offer me
anything I can’t
get standing in
the middle of
traffic shouting
at the sky.

I’ve long accepted
that I will be a
posthumous
man.

When I die they
will assemble

to piss on my grave
or make love at my grave.

Clergymen will
set themselves on fire

and there will be
weeping and cursing
and singing.

Beautiful women
will get wet reading
my poems

drunken rednecks will
run around naked with
4th of July sparklers
dangling from their
assholes.

When all is said and done --
when I am dead

they will all finally be
made to remember.

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This appears in a pre-2010 issue of cc&d magazine. Saddle-stitched issues are no longer printed, but you can requesting it “re-released” through amazon sale as a 6" x 9" ISBN# book! Email us for re-release to order.

This appears in a pre-2010 issue
of cc&d magazine.
Saddle-stitched issues are no longer
printed, but you can requesting it
“re-released” through amazon sale
as a 6" x 9" ISBN# book!
Email us for re-release to order.