Friday, April 24, 2020

I Contain Multitudes

I have a phobia about submitting,
and I’m always on myself about it.
Who’d pass up their chance to be the next Milton?
I could have been the next Milton,
but fear prevented it:
I have a phobia about submitting.
That’s why I’m never shitting
and always getting off the Duotrope
pot—powerful database of chances to be Milton.
Blind Milton could see
very well that he was better
than anybody else—he didn’t fret about submitting.
I wonder how he arranged the printing
of his work. He couldn’t broadcast it on the internet
like Bob Dylan, the closest we have today to a new Milton.
Nah, I’ll just keep posting
on my blog. Submitting’s too much of a pain in the butt.
I have a phobia about submitting.
What’s wrong with wanting to be like Milton?