Refusal

Refusal

Stood on top my desk 
rope over a beam 
postman knocked three times
there is hope
a letter
a publisher has sent me a letter
I open it and laughed
it is another rejection
something about my spelling 
lack of punctuation and commas 
the publisher
used to be a teacher
Copyright © | Year Posted 2015

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