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February 20, 2008

not publishable

Filed under: poetry, susanna smith — ABRAXAS @ 8:53 pm

you i listen to
intently

consciously filing your pieces

carefully labeled
and marked
… to remember

me you listen to
absentmindedly

consciously dismissing my pieces

quickly labeled
and strewn
… not publishable

One Response to “not publishable”

  1. Jonathan Says:

    Does anybody really still say that? Most everybody I know says “not appropriate for this magazine” or “not my thing” or something like that. “Not publishable” seems like a strange thing to hear in this post-canonical powetry age.

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