1 Submission, 2 Rejections

Once upon a while ago, I sent some of the funny-political poems to Exquisite Corpse. I thought, "maybe." They have now replied, twice.

First:

On Feb 12, 2008 8:12 PM, Exquisite Corpse wrote:

Nice stuff...not for us this issue though...

ED

Second:

February 2008

Dear Scrivener:

Thank you for subjecting yourself to the Corpse. We will not use your offering, but we are 99.9% certain that the rejection is not personal. If you fall in the 0.1% of submissioners against whom we have vendettas or grudges, we will notify you by means of individualized sirventes. In any case, being rejected by the Corpse puts you in very distinguished company: since January 1983 when we were born, we have savaged, mocked, and rejected many members of the current Pantheon. In fact, come to think of it, being rejected by us gets you that much closer to belletristic glory, whereas had we accepted your work, you might have become an instant pariah to the literary world! Congratulations!

Andrei Codrescu

or the Corpse & Corpse Staff

The hilarity of which is precisely the reason I want to convince them to publish my work.