A little too late for this announcement, but NYC is celebrating the Poem In Your Pocket Day today, April 17 and an open-mic is being held at Bryant Park right this minute (what are you waiting for? get on the train, quick!). Even the city’s mayor joined in and published a poem in today’s edition of Metro:
Press Conference
Pardon me, sir, I’ve a question or two …
You.Sir, you said poetry is a delight…
Right.Reading it makes you smarter, more mature?
Sure.But is it better for people not to read verse?
Worse.Do you read sonnets? Limericks? Odes?
Loads.All these short answers. Why?
I -Follow-up! What do you do in your free time?
Rhyme.Could poems appeal to the Press?
Yes.But can they help with traffic congestion?
Next question.
The man rhymes! I hope he didn’t have his secretary write this, because it is pretty amusing to me. 
*”it’s always better
to reject yourself
before the editors do.”
By the way, I don’t think I ever mentioned that I got a rejection letter from NYU’s Washington Square after I submitted 5 mediocre poems a couple of months ago, when they were just about closing in reviews for publication. Heck, I’m not even surprised - I had to give myself a pat in the back for even having the chutzpah to put the damned envelope in the mail. I think I’ll make like *Charles Bukowski and collect one rejection slip after another. What can I tell you, I am a slave for sacrifice.
Posted in i don't mind if you forget me, stories from gotham
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