Tonight, Sarah (our friend / host over at dVerse Poets) wants us to write something that “verbifies” animals (like “dogging someone’s footprints” or “weaseling out of commitments”). Sarah does a great job explaining the intent, and provides many outstanding examples HERE, if you’d like to see more.
Meanwhile…
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Email After Rewrite #4
I’m totally done
monkeying around with this.
Send the rejection.
Don’t bother saying
‘Thanks for sending us your work’
Send the rejection.
Send it. Send it now.
I won’t hound you anymore.
(I know it bugs you.)
Send the rejection.
Quit pussyfooting around.
Send the rejection.
Just one last request:
Do your best to send it soon
(I’ll stop badgering!)
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dVerse Poets Pub
Tuesday Poetics 05.30.23
~ Acting Like Animals ~
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Scrambled, Not Fried 
haha! A+ for you, Ron.
Oh yes……we’ve all received those rejections….but I must smile and think, your loss. 🙂 That’s they way to lioness your way through those! 🙂
I love it 😻 that was excellently done
Well done Ron!
what fun (not) those rejections are. great poem.
I love this, Ron! It’s such a familiar situation that you’ve monkeyed around with to make it new and surprising. Great use of repetition, which reminds me what a drag rejections are, and the asides in parentheses.
We’ve all been there! Lovely work – wry and dry and funny, and identifiable.
Good one, Ron! 😀
Wow, that was verbifying animals on overdrive, Ron. You didn’t squirrel around with this prompt. 🙂
Love it, Ron! You did carp on and on! 😀
A clear message and humorous. They best stop pussyfooting writers like that. Thanks for sharing. You should send this to THEM. clever. xo
Gorgeously rendered, Ron! ❤️
Brilliant Ron! 😊
Savage threats there 🙂