Submissions Policy
We are a prestigious journal of literature,
Just three times a year –
We favour the terribly serious, dense and obscure,
We hope that’s clear.
We’ve got a readership high in the double-digits,
We’re highbrow, yet cosy –
We look-down on rhyming as only for populist midgets,
But love verse that’s prosy.
So if you send us one, just one, of your poems,
Make sure it’s unseen –
For if you dared to succumb to a previous showing,
It’s no longer clean.
It might be only your blog, and viewed by only a few,
But that is enough !
What were you thinking, to waste your words, adieu,
Like any old stuff ?
You should have kept it locked in a drawer,
Until our benevolent sun
Is shone down upon it, as no eyes before,
Its virgin lines undone.
If you’ve said it before, we won’t help you say it again –
You’re spent goods, my dear.
For we are the ultra-exclusive, and so shall remain,
Just three times a year.
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