Not Even a 'Thanks For Entering' Card.I misread the flyer and I think I got it wrong --
the competition ends tomorrow: I am truly screwed!
my printer wouldn't take the ink that I got for a song
I printed out five hundred pages – every one was nude!
I copied files to USB and opened up the phone
book to find a printing shop that handled novel things
I dialled up several companies but nobody was home
until I found one miles away and wished that I had wings.
A fiver for the taxi fare and tenpence every page
(why did they ask for double spaced? I could have saved a mint)
the printer man was very pleased to have me pay his wage
I boxed it up and went to the post office in a sprint.
Twenty quid to guarantee delivery A.M.
I shelled out and never heard a thing from them again.
8 comments:
Nooooooooooooooooooooooo!!
Drats!
oh! my word verification - prose
It was a couple of years ago now!
Brilliant word verification!
Now that completely sucks.
It would snerrate me so...(snerrate being my allocated word verification thingy)
I love 'snerrate'!
It was the Daily Mail Novel Competition
1. Brilliant verse.
2. I would have wept.
Thank you.
It was stupid of me to enter, really.
How utterly infuriating for you. Grrrrrrr.
At least I got a poem out of it!
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