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[okay, this little poem has been removed on the urging of the pahlawan. somehow she thinks it has a shot. so if i am going to risk rejection, i will risk being rejected by the very best. sometime within the next three months i should find out whether the poetry editor at the new yorker magazine likes it or not. once they find out i've never purchased so much as a single copy of their fine publication, they will probably reject my work expeditiously. but hey, invention & technology doesn't print poetry, so what else can i do? anyway, thanks for the encouragement and wish me luck. happy national day tomorrow, hope you have fun.]