Send It

Tonight was the first submission of my manuscript.

As expected, it was a little underwhelming.

To me, the most momentous occasion was a month or so ago when I copied the .docx from my “chapbooks” folder into a new folder called “manuscripts” and began chopping it up.



My laptop looks like it’s seen some things.

I am usually pretty persnickety about keeping it clean but I just let it slide. It went everywhere with me. Most recent meals were eaten while sitting in front of it.

To any future readers that stumble on my manuscript out in the wild: Yes, I did a self-insert into my own book where an entity that lives inside of me urges me to drink, and I oblige by drinking an Old Style beer.

As far as I know, there are not actually any beer-adverse talking entities inside of me; don’t worry.

But Old Style is okay.

Special Bonus: the original micro-poem from The Author of The Controls Are Not Responding Needs to Take a Drink, Now

inside your body
its dark and i’m so thirsty—
please drink some water