Thursday, May 13, 2021

Regarding the Previous Follow-up Email by Ben Nardolilli

I recently sent you information! Fuck you
For not getting back to me about it.
What? You think you’re so great
You can afford to pass up the opportunity
To read this great author’s equally fucking
Great book even though it’s free for you?
 
Yeah, it’ll take up time, time I’m sure
You’ll fill with wonderful things
Like feeding orphans and winning
Nobel Prizes for literature and peace! No,
You’re just a jackoff plain and simple,
Who needs to learn to reply to our emails
 
Come on, take it! Take this novel! Read it,
Cry over it, and then write a review,
Don’t worry, we’ll rip one sentence out
For a blurb on the paperback edition,
Before wiping our asses with the rest of it,
A boon for an unpublished writer like you





Ben Nardolilli currently lives in New York City. His work has appeared in Perigee Magazine, Red Fez, Danse Macabre, The 22 Magazine, Quail Bell Magazine, Elimae, The Northampton Review, Local Train Magazine, The Minetta Review, and Yes Poetry. He blogs at mirrorsponge.blogspot.com and is trying to publish his novels.



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