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Mathew Snyder's avatar

Hahahaha!

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pamm hanson's avatar

Oh I needed this this morning. Thank for an out loud laugh!

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Kim Nelson's avatar

Such familiar

refrains

It pains

me to say

I've heard them

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Mary Holscher's avatar

This was exactly my thought as I read this.

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X. P. Callahan's avatar

🥲😂

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Lev Raphael's avatar

Brilliant. This is so damned true.

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Sharon Hom's avatar

OMG, I really appreciated your hilarious offer of mounting a sneak attack 😹😹😹😹

Sadly (or happily) at the moment, “I have no enemies” (as Nobel Peace Laureate Liu Xiaobo famously stated, despite his imprisonment and torture in a Chinese prison). But if I did, you’d be the first poet I’d call😹

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Mary Roblyn's avatar

“Venmo, CashApp, Bitcoin, ether . . .” Now I’m off to earn some epiphanies.

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Radically accessible poems's avatar

So funny!

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man of aran's avatar

Ashberry blasphemy! ;-|

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Kelly M. Houle's avatar

Take my money!! This is gold.

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Lisa Jensen's avatar

Oh my God, that's why people keep saying these things to me . . . they're getting paid. I feel SO much better now. 😂

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Ted Goldstein's avatar

I love this.

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Margaret Ann Silver's avatar

Ha! Classic lines. My favorites are "It feels like it wants to be two poems" and "The poem doesn’t start till stanza 3" (I've heard those so many times because I am pretty long-winded in my first drafts 😁).

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X. P. Callahan's avatar

Not to mention "This isn't working for me, but I can almost see what you were going for."

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Malcolm J McKinney's avatar

I ignore critics.

I just throw stuff and let God (or Substack) sort it out.

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X. P. Callahan's avatar

Indeed, sir. I do this on the regular.

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Victory Palace's avatar

Ditto that!

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Victoria Nordgren's avatar

Dark.

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Lev Raphael's avatar

It's very close, btw, to the kind of boilerplate remarks you might get in a fiction workshop too.

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X. P. Callahan's avatar

Indeed it is. The glorious passive aggression of it all.

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Janie Braverman's avatar

Spit laughing!

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