Starting the New Year Off Right...

My first non-spam e-mail of the year? I received the first poetry submission rejection (acceptable because I submitted via e-mail to an online journal). Here it is, verbatim:

Interesting but not quite what we're looking for. Try us again sometime. Previously published is okay.

the editors

Well, no. Not with that kind of feedback, I won't. I have no idea what about the poems wasn't what they were looking for and so I am in in imminent danger of repeating the error. And "try us again sometime" is the equivalent of a telling someone you don't really want to see/hang out with/date that you'll call him "sometime." You so don't plan to call...