Seven Rejections
1. I know three people who have broken off relationships after reading Freedom by Jonathan Franzen. Is this a coincidence?
2. Here’s how you break up with an elephant killer.
3. When the hagfish rejects your hug, it covers you in a slimy coat, as noted under the Slime (and behavior) heading on the Wikipedia page.
4. Two weeks ago, I submitted a few packets of poetry and some essays to various magazines. Within five hours, I had my first rejection letter. Yesterday, I received a nice & personalized rejection. I miss the slow return of USPS deliveries.
5. One of my friends has been diagnosed with an autoimmune disorder—her body is rejecting itself. Each morning, she wakes without being able to move her arms.
6. I read that porpoises were once land-dwelling creatures who took to the sea and developed fins rather than hands. For all their intelligence, they float in the green womb of the ocean though flotsam, not investigating the several hundreds of things we touch & flip & turn during the day. Still, they once saved Dick Van Dyke’s life.
7. Last week, I almost triggered an explosion when I neglected to turn off my cell phone while driving through a mountain top removal blasting zone. In telecommunications, rejection is defined as receiving the desired signal, rather than the millions of other signals out there.
This is a lovely post. I seriously enjoyed it – especially #5 & #6. Both poems in themselves.
This is beautiful. I love the associative leaps and connections you make here.
Beautiful Amaris. I’m going to start interpreting all my rejection letters by the telecommunications definition. It’s not that my writing sucked, it’s that I didn’t find the desired channel for my signal.