By Lawrence “Mack in Texas” Hall, Cf. Shakespeare, Sonnet 25
The Pulitzer people did not telephone today
Nor did the Library of Congress or the folks at Nobel
I could paper a room with rejection slips
Except that rejections are electronic now
I have no honorary doctorate
Universities do not ask me to speak
Publishers knock at other scribblers’ doors
And my poor verses share leaves with Orlando’s
Which is not as I like it –
but there is you
And it is in you that true honors accrue
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