Rejection Slips
The young always assume the burden of ignorance .
Believing there words are the first to know rejection .
They feel the emotion, yet do not grasp the truths only time teaches .
Madness takes time my sweet .
It has been a long road to become so perfectly demented .
And I can cover my walls in rejection .
Always take something from the emptiness it leaves behind .
If a no is all it takes to break you.
Then this is the wrong line of work for you.
Anyone can blow smoke up your ass.
It's the bitter truths that sharpen the steel .
One day nothing will make you bleed but your own hands.
- John Robbins 2017
John Patrick Robbins is a barroom poet who's work has appeared in Inbetween Hangovers, Your One Phone Call , Red Fez , Ramingos Porch , Spill The Words and the Outlaw Poetry Network . His work is always a hundred percent unfiltered .
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