Rejected!

Over a month ago I sent a few poems off to a local poetry magazine. On Tuesday I saw sitting on the kitchen table an envelope I had self addressed and sent along with the poems. When I picked the envelope up I could tell it contained the three poems I had mailed off. It surprised me how discouraged I felt for a little while. O! the rejection. How could by babies not be good enough for some local rag? The nerve! I reckon I'll revise them and send them off to another publication.