Rejection
"We don't like your
      poetry
        short story
           novel"-- fill in the blank,
said the letter.
That must mean I can't write--
      so I won't, said the writer.
And yet another writer was silenced,
      another voice lost!
But,
       if you lost a single game, would you stop playing
           checkers, chess or cards?
Then why stop writing because a single editor
     is wrong?