“Get Your Book Published!”
– email solicitation.
Get my book published? Hey! Why not?
If that’s the only chance it’s got,
I’ve got to take it. Got to try
another different angle. Why
continue in the same old way?
Why wait and wait until the day
that answer comes, and it’s the same?
We all know it is just a game
we’ve got to play and – always – lose.
But what if this time I refuse
to play the patsy? Grab the bull,
swallow my pride, and pay in full
for what I then will have in hand?
I will caress it. I’ll feel grand!
It will be everything I’ll need.
I’ll give it to my friends to read,
and they will thank me. Put it by
to maybe read sometime, while I,
now buoyant through that step I took,
get cracking on another book!