Apr 2018
Stacks of letters
saying "no"
rejection can be
such a blow
most every writer
has some
even Dr. Seuss
though he had a chum
that's how the book
expressed it
when they said
who would have
guessed it
he'd pleaded
to so many
said maybe
ten or twenty
supposed to make
for less regrets
bid you continue
in your
attempts
but
then they drop the boom
bring you back your gloom
they go on to say
in these very terms
he bumped into a "chum"
who worked
for a publishing firm
saying "no"
rejection can be
such a blow
most every writer
has some
even Dr. Seuss
though he had a chum
that's how the book
expressed it
when they said
who would have
guessed it
he'd pleaded
to so many
said maybe
ten or twenty
supposed to make
for less regrets
bid you continue
in your
attempts
but
then they drop the boom
bring you back your gloom
they go on to say
in these very terms
he bumped into a "chum"
who worked
for a publishing firm
I have a book on how to get children's books published. I thought this passage was so ironic. They were trying to say "even Dr. Seuss" had been rejected X number of times (wasn't all that many). When they went on to tell about his "chum" it seemed they were saying "even Dr. Seuss had to KNOW somebody." LOL
