O Stars

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Once I was on a party boat in Acapulco


And halfway through it I found out that by some amazing coincidence


Everyone on it had given me a one star review on Amazon


Including the bar boys


And at first they were polite, saying things like, It just wasn’t for me


Or it started good and dragged in the middle


And then they drank a bunch of cheap tequila shots


And started saying meaner things


Like your novel sucks


And you suck too


And if I could have given it zero stars


I would have.


Furthermore, I’d like to murder everyone on your acknowledgment page


With a club made from the wood of the tree that died for this thing you call a book.


They formed a conga line and shouted you suck! you suck!


To the beat of Taylor Swift


And the bar boys shouted Usted suckoste! Usted suckoste! Dirty whore!


Which is guess is a kind of spanglish.


Anyway I also saw


A couple of dolphins.


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Published on October 16, 2015 08:16
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