Sunday, April 26, 2020

dear editor, here is a picture of me. do you like the poem written on my inner thigh? loveslut











INFLAMMATORY ESSAYS

Jane Sprague

dear editor,

here is my pome. read it and publish it in your journal which I do not read and cant afford to read but I need to get my poems in print and I would read mine if you printed it. in your journal

dear editor,

I loved the anonymous rejection letter when you know me by e-mail by name. loved that. thanks. hope it didn't put you out any paper any ink.

love,
jane


dear editor,
here is my poem. I think your journal sucks but I am sending you my poem anyway.

thanks
jane


dear editor,

here is my poem print it or die


dear editor

here is some anthrax. oh, sorry, I mean, that's the title of my poem. ha!


allthebest
jane


dear editor

here is a sample of my work. I call it poems. call it what you wish. I like your journal. I'd like it even more if I was in it.

jane

dear editor,

read me and weep.

dear editor,

I'm sending you love and a poem. no one else wants either, but I thought you might.

dear editor,

love and love and maybe a slight bit of menace.
here's a sonnet for your unkind and wisecracking editorial non-consideration.


paz,
jane


dear editor,

here is some of my blood.
print it.


jane


dear editor,
PS: I am hep C neg.


love,
jane


dear editor,

send me one of YOUR pomes, why doncha?

jane


dear editor,

here is money. print me.

jane

dear editor.

here is a picture of me.
do you like the poem written on my inner thigh?

loveslut

dear editor,

my doctor says I have to stop sending you poems. here is a collection of titles to poems.

dear editor,

now I'm writing lyric essays. here ya go-

love,
jane

dear anonymous unnamed editor,

what's the price of heroin in shanghai? one of my poems!
ha!


jane


dear editor,

I'm just writing to say, hi, hello, how are you? haven't heard from you in forever, how's your health?

Jane

dear editor,

when you finish reading this letter it will unfurl into thousands of shards of invisible glass eisinglass, smoke, mission impossible acrid scented secret PUBLISH MY FUCKING POEM screams. That will start happening right about... now-

love!
jane


Dear E.,

Just sending love this time. Namaste, man.

Jane

Dear E.,

Fuck it, I'm switching to fiction.
Love,
Jane
PS: How ARE you????
Doublelove, Jane

1 comment:

  1. while reading jane sprague's piece i wondered if the "lyric essay" is a thing - according to wikipedia it is

    i am disinclined to spend a lot of time reading and thinking about why the bernie sanders campaign didn't succeed and how different decisions might have produced a different result - i am satisfied with my conclusion that bernie et al. thought there was a chance to win the nomination and the election within the existing party structures - it didn't work out -"For of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these: 'It might have been!'" ---john greenleaf whittier, whose "song of the negro boatmen" i read this morning in his bio at wikipedia

    here's a joke i made up this morning -

    "how's the pandemic?"
    "compared to what?"









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