The Web Poetry Corner is a Dream Machine Site
The Dream Machine --- The Imagination of the World Wide Web

It is now possible to read this poem aloud, record it and post it on this site.
Click HERE to find out how.

The Web Poetry Corner - Christine McGuigan - Poets, Beware of the Publishing-Crooks

Poets, Beware of the Publishing-Crooks

by

Christine McGuigan

I made a "Coffin of Shame" tonight
Finally did what I felt was right

Laid to rest, put far out of sight
Those books I bought when things were tight

From publishers who prey on poets' dreams
With crooked, "You-could-win-the-grand-prize!" schemes

Taking the money we can't afford to spare
They devour it without the slightest care

Poets, please beware of the publishing-crooks
Who charge you to be in their anthology-books

Don't be fooled by their phony words of praise
Or their "You're-a-semi-finalist!" ways

If they attempt to lure you
Think of what others have gone through

They want your money: THAT IS IT!
So tell them to eat a pile of shit!

NEXT?
Why don't you look at Letter to Jannie
by: John William McGrath III
from: Mesa, AZ, US

To visit all of Christine McGuigan's poems, click HERE

Check out these deals at Amazon.com

...the best independent ISP in the Twin Cities

To write us about this page,
contact willy@dreamagic.com (Willy Chaplin)