'I wish that each of us / could put such trust in words we'd spend a lifetime / on the vessel of a single verse, proofing our lines, / only to unmoor them from our names.'
—Helen Mort, 'The Complete Works of Anonymous'
Oh, I did reply, just to test the whole "I blocked you as spam" thing. Told them this poem wasn't right for us either (lol!) and they basically apologised for being an ass.
Not sure why after a rejection, this college professor felt the need to inform me that they were 'not moved' by the work they saw on the site and they were 'mystified' by my choices because what they read was 'not all that good'. Uhm, okay?
Folks, I'm just so mentally exhausted that I've been sitting in a mall with a coffee and a book for nearly two hours, and all I've done is drink the coffee (and tweet this).
Suddenly hit me this morning that a decade ago, I was a newbie editor running a litmag because 'why not?', who got invited to be prose editor at another litmag after contributing POETRY and said 'why not?', all this while finishing a BA and starting an MA. I was mad, wasn't I?
Omg. John Kucera just submitted again. Off for a check-up (just a standard pre-employment thing), so I haven't had the time to Google which poems he plagiarised this time.