Over and Over And-
The greatest skill a writer learns
Is licking stamps on envelopes,
And what goes out, too soon returns:
A boomerang of battered hopes.
Revise, rewrite, submit once more,
Until your tongue is dry
From posting manuscripts that bore
The editors who (won’t/can’t) say why.
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