Dear Mr. E. A. Poe:
We are returning your unsolicited manuscript and ask that you not send us any further materials. The level of your work does not meet our standards of quality. Thank you for your interest in our publication.
Normally I don’t add anything more to these letters. But since it seems you may be a student, allow me to offer a few suggestions. Judging from your writing, I would guess you to be in your first year at the community college, and I like to encourage young up-and-comers.
Perhaps you wrote this piece as a homework assignment for your humanities class. I don’t know what your teacher may have told you; but it is not proper to submit classwork to magazines in the hope of killing two birds with one stone.
Speaking of birds, that poem is definitely for them! For the birds, that is. That is such an unlikely scenario that I doubt there is anyone who could connect with it. Further, your meter pattern is inconsistent and confusing. And the rhymes don’t match — “window lattice / what there at is.” Really?! This piece is ok for a first effort. But you will need a lot of improvement before you’ll ever write something with any hope of becoming popular.
So, stay in school, study hard, and practice a lot. Perhaps in five or ten years you may again send me something to look over. Best of luck.
Sincerely,
Bloward Dumas
Head Editor
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