The Last Rejection Slip

I’m no poet, but I had a little fun writing this during JD Mader’s Flash Fiction Friday. There’s so much great writing going on at 2 Minutes: Go. I hope you’ll check it out. And maybe next week, you’ll come write with us. Or read what results.

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The Last Rejection Slip

Dear author, confidentially,

I’ve had the opportunity

To peruse your latest tome

About the final sack of Rome

Or was it romance in the air

Between two alpha billionaires?

A clone of the latest big bestseller

Paranormal fortuneteller?

A steampunk Valley of the Dolls?

Amish gangsters and their molls?

While it’s brilliant, shows such pluck

It won’t help me make a buck.

Sorry for the frank report

There’s just too much mail to sort.

So thanks but no thanks, author friend,

And with this query I will send

My suggestion you self-publish

Check out Facebook, Twitter, Bublish.

If you do well, please advise

Because I’d like to cut my ties.

See, there’s a novel in my head

(Seinfeld meets The Walking Dead.)

I’m dying to get out of here

Publish more than once a year

Write the book I damn well please

And get bigger royalties.