The Twelve Days of Writing 2.0

by Lupe Fernandez

On the Twelfth Day of Christmas,
my true love gave to me:


Twelve Job Applications,

Eleven Rejection Notices,

Ten Medical Bills,

Nine Unfinished Drafts, 

Eight Failed Laptops, 

Seven Lousy Book Titles, 

Six Extraneous Characters, 

Five Better Writers, 

Four Crying Children, 

Three Agent Restraining Orders, 

Two Missed Conferences, 

and my dinner in a pear tree.