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bc4f">We enjoyed reading your work, but we liked the others more; nothing against you, so don’t abandon your dream; you are a writer — believe in yourself, and all the other form-letter clichés</p><p id="3f69">Although we didn’t have time to give you any constructive criticism, we thought you’d take our rejection better with some pretentious editorial fun</p><p id="5263"><b>I replied</b>:</p><p id="fc7d">Dear Editor of The Pastrami on Rye:</p><p id="ec44">Thanks for the fun form letter; it didn’t make me feel better, but you forgot that Ezra Pound’s poem “Portrait d’une femme” was rejected by the <i>North American Review </i>for having the letter ‘r’ three times in the first line</p><p id="3501">And Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven” was also refused by an editor who felt sorry for Poe and gave him $15 as charit

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y; an idea that sounds better than your condescending drivel; so I figure that fifteen then is at least a hundred now.</p><p id="0c26">© 2022 <a href="undefined">Mark Tulin</a></p><p id="5e6f">Here’s another poem by Mark Tulin:</p><div id="bea3" class="link-block"> <a href="https://readmedium.com/oak-park-in-the-afternoon-f705dec28f61"> <div> <div> <h2>Oak Park in the Afternoon</h2> <div><h3>A poem for The Lark poetry competition</h3></div> <div><p>medium.com</p></div> </div> <div> <div style="background-image: url(https://miro.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:320/1*_0GOEnnVn700KKww0-Zs9Q.jpeg)"></div> </div> </div> </a> </div></article></body>

FOUND PROSE POEM

An Editor’s Rejection Letter

Need not lessen the pain

Photo of Edgar Allan Poe by Clker-Free-Vector-Images on Pixabay

Dear Author:

Vincent Van Gogh only sold a couple of paintings An editor rejected Sylvia Plath because she didn’t have the knack An editor claimed Rudyard Kipling didn’t know English well enough Talented artists like yourself should stick to their vision, because being rejected by a little rag like ours is no great loss

We enjoyed reading your work, but we liked the others more; nothing against you, so don’t abandon your dream; you are a writer — believe in yourself, and all the other form-letter clichés

Although we didn’t have time to give you any constructive criticism, we thought you’d take our rejection better with some pretentious editorial fun

I replied:

Dear Editor of The Pastrami on Rye:

Thanks for the fun form letter; it didn’t make me feel better, but you forgot that Ezra Pound’s poem “Portrait d’une femme” was rejected by the North American Review for having the letter ‘r’ three times in the first line

And Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven” was also refused by an editor who felt sorry for Poe and gave him $15 as charity; an idea that sounds better than your condescending drivel; so I figure that fifteen then is at least a hundred now.

Here’s another poem by Mark Tulin:

Oak Park in the Afternoon

A poem for The Lark poetry competition

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