Tuesday, August 11, 2009

Smash the presses!


I'm for peer review as much (if not more) than the next guy. HOWEVER ...
Having published my book myself as a blog, I felt so freed that I am going to start self-publishing in this blog smaller pieces that I have written.
No more submitting to journals and waiting three months for their response.
No more having a piece accepted, not run, and being told when I followed up, "send me something." (true story)
No more being told they got my stuff and that someone will get back to me and being told when I followed up that they never got my stuff. (true story)
So, here's a poem. I'm open to suggestions but please no snark. I don't want to know THAT you hate it or WHY you hate it. I do want to know if you see a way to make it better.
Thanks for reading!

Unhinged

the door opens again
the door opens again
and may never have opened
in the first place
in the first place
it may never have opened
that way
no, not that way
please
the door opens
and your father steps through
your father steps through
the open door
opens
the door
and is gone.

And the door
you've come from
remains a memory
your whole life
a memory
of someone else.

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