jd4george
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- Joined
- Feb 25, 2004
- Posts
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Got my coffee. Time to check my new stuff. Cool! First poem listed, and that's a good thing. Might get a couple extra reads and...
WHAT THE FUCK? Where's the other one?
Close. Log in. Submssions. View.
There, staring me in the face is the word "REJECTED". I know the word is in small type, but I can swear that it's in bigass letters, flashing on and off with the sounds of sirens and bells. What the fuck? I look at it again, and sure enough, there's the small little blue word: Rejected. Maybe it was red... I don't know. I'm beginning to get a little worked up.
But it's a good poem, dammit! Maybe if I click it, I can find out why... or even better, make the word go away.
Click.
Huh? What are you talking about? What do you mean you only publish original works? I know that. Any wannabe poet knows that. How fucking stupid do you think I am? Wait a minute...
ARE YOU ACCUSING ME OF THEFT? NOW WAIT JUST ONE MINUTE, YOU COCKSUCKING, SONOFABITCH, BASTARD MOTHERFUCKING ASSHOLE, WORM-DICKED...
Easy, Mykie... easy.
Maybe they thought the eulogy poem was written by the guy I dedicated it to. He's was my uncle, and he was stiff as a board when I wrote it, but... Maybe I fucked up. Maybe the dedication line didn't get formatted, 'cause maybe I fucked it up. I know I typed in the italics coding, and... yeah! There it is. Clear as a fucking bell: "Oliver Dudley Stewart, 1926-1997"
I knew I put it in there!
I mean, I've had all those conversations with folks... (be honest Mykie, they're poets here that you respect)... discussing dedications and codifiers and introductions. I even listened to them and decided to put it right there at the bottom of the poem...
...just like a reference in a term paper, when you credit the author.
Oops. Mea culpa. Maybe the webmaster isn't worm-dicked after all...
(Maybe I should send him an apology for the namecalling. To hell with it, he couldn't hear me. Shit, maybe he's a woman... Come on Mykie, does it matter?)
...maybe they actually do take the time to be careful about stuff like that. Maybe they do read everything. Maybe respecting the rights and works of authors and poets really is important to them. Maybe this place really has a lot more class, just like you hoped.
Maybe you ought to shut the fuck up and fix the dedication. Hmmmm... and write a note of clarification. (Insert sound of typing).
Preview. Submit. View. There it is again: the word "Pending". Log out.
Coffee's cold.
Still wish I hadn't fucked up the submission, because it would have been a nice counterpoint to "Geezer". Oh, well. I just hope they didn't hear the names I called'em 'cause if they did, I kiss any chances of ever getting an "E" goodbye!
I wonder what the other folks wrote...
New Poems.
Click.
WHAT THE FUCK? Where's the other one?
Close. Log in. Submssions. View.
There, staring me in the face is the word "REJECTED". I know the word is in small type, but I can swear that it's in bigass letters, flashing on and off with the sounds of sirens and bells. What the fuck? I look at it again, and sure enough, there's the small little blue word: Rejected. Maybe it was red... I don't know. I'm beginning to get a little worked up.
But it's a good poem, dammit! Maybe if I click it, I can find out why... or even better, make the word go away.
Click.
Huh? What are you talking about? What do you mean you only publish original works? I know that. Any wannabe poet knows that. How fucking stupid do you think I am? Wait a minute...
ARE YOU ACCUSING ME OF THEFT? NOW WAIT JUST ONE MINUTE, YOU COCKSUCKING, SONOFABITCH, BASTARD MOTHERFUCKING ASSHOLE, WORM-DICKED...
Easy, Mykie... easy.
Maybe they thought the eulogy poem was written by the guy I dedicated it to. He's was my uncle, and he was stiff as a board when I wrote it, but... Maybe I fucked up. Maybe the dedication line didn't get formatted, 'cause maybe I fucked it up. I know I typed in the italics coding, and... yeah! There it is. Clear as a fucking bell: "Oliver Dudley Stewart, 1926-1997"
I knew I put it in there!
I mean, I've had all those conversations with folks... (be honest Mykie, they're poets here that you respect)... discussing dedications and codifiers and introductions. I even listened to them and decided to put it right there at the bottom of the poem...
...just like a reference in a term paper, when you credit the author.
Oops. Mea culpa. Maybe the webmaster isn't worm-dicked after all...
(Maybe I should send him an apology for the namecalling. To hell with it, he couldn't hear me. Shit, maybe he's a woman... Come on Mykie, does it matter?)
...maybe they actually do take the time to be careful about stuff like that. Maybe they do read everything. Maybe respecting the rights and works of authors and poets really is important to them. Maybe this place really has a lot more class, just like you hoped.
Maybe you ought to shut the fuck up and fix the dedication. Hmmmm... and write a note of clarification. (Insert sound of typing).
Preview. Submit. View. There it is again: the word "Pending". Log out.
Coffee's cold.
Still wish I hadn't fucked up the submission, because it would have been a nice counterpoint to "Geezer". Oh, well. I just hope they didn't hear the names I called'em 'cause if they did, I kiss any chances of ever getting an "E" goodbye!
I wonder what the other folks wrote...
New Poems.
Click.
