Thoughts . . . by Mark Rich

. . . scribbled . . . scrawled . . . trimmed . . . typewritten . . . grubbed up . . . squeezed from circumstance . . .

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Thursday, February 23, 2023

Submitted for Your Consideration

In our age of automated "personalization," it is, of course, a pleasant revealing of the truth of the situation, when one receives an e-mail rejecting a poem with this opening greeting:

"Hello {SUBMITTER_NAME],"

Mr. Submitter Name, being duly impersonalized, has not sent the rejection back to the magazine as "not what he was looking for."

Such a reply would be a little too faux-automatic.

Cheers . .