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Poetry: Trish Jackson confesses

She is NOT the Weslo Cadence G-40 Electric Excercycle For Sale Poet, after all! Heather is. Details in tell-all below.
About: Lose Weight And Gain Poetic Abilities

To ColumbiaMagazine.com:

On the ad for the treadmill, Heather was surprised that you did not recognize her writing and gave me the byline...so I guess I better confess and say that she wrote most of the catchy poem that we sent you...my writing is generally not Edgar Allen Poe ....have a great week!

s/Trish Jackson



Thanks. I know you'll feel better now. If there is anything else heavy on your heart, feel free to put it on CM; we'll lend a compassionate ear and also help you keep your secrets. Your note does explain why our phone has been ringing off the hook with accusatory people saying "That poem looks very derivative of the works of Heather Jackson." No harm done, though. After all, all's is fair in poetry writing and selling exercise machines. At least one reader is worried that the poem will create an epidemic of folks talking only in rhymed couplets, and there's the implication that no great civilization has ever survived when rhymed couplets became the official language. No real harm done: Heather gets the Pulitizer. You don't get the blame for rhymed coupletism. EW


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