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another rejection

all those
college magazines
in latex hands
of tweed wearing
pipestem chewing
tobacco disdaining
walking clichés
of professorial omniscience
publishing obdurate drivel
and flowery nonsense
to show all their no chin admirers
they're really somebody special -

couldn't pull seed from their balls
with a syringe.