Excellent In favor of printer, not poet. A Chapbook Challenge by Ginda Simpson Stacked Limerick contest entry

This challenge was merely a pitch to lure poets into their ditch They wanted to grow their business and so They came up with a plan that was rich.   Let's offer a chapbook challenge they schemed to poets who will write and will dream but presentations were poor the prompts a real bore but print orders were the goal, it seemed.   The challenge misleading, I now know it in favor of printer not poet So my poems I will keep and not take the leap but wait for a press who won't blow it.   Author Notes I once entered an online challenge to write a chapbook. I was new to the idea and a bit naive. I learned at the end that the goal was little more than a means to advertise their printing business. Full disclosure up front would have been appreciated.

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