Vagus Nerve

Our school has this magazine that comes out every year or so called the Vagus Nerve. It's a pretty cool little magazine where students from UNLV and CSUN can submit poetry, paintings, photographs, and other works of art in order to have it published. Now, I consider myself to be above average when it comes to poetry (I've written it and studied it most of my life, so hopefully I've accomplished something). And last years submissions were ok (some were actually pretty damn good), but the majority of them were pretty shitty. There was one that was some lame goth Marilyn Manson rip off. Actually, funny story about that. My friend was talking to a group of his buddies about the poem, and this goth girl walks up and says "what are you guys talking about?" And my friend says "this really bad poem about plastic people in the Vagus Nerve. It sounds like some emo goth in therapy ripped off Marilyn Manson lyrics." And the girls says "I wrote that." Well, because my friend is awesome he replies "oh, so you're familliar with the work?" Then the girl goes on to say something about how therapy is nothing to joke about and that she's been dealing with issues blah blah. My friend says "well, at least you'll have something to tell your therapist this afternoon." I always find it amusing that people who completely hate themselves get upset when you insult them. I see, it's ok for you to hate yourself, but if anyone makes a flippant remark you get offended. Logic anyone? But I digress... I submitted 5 poems this year to the Nerve (which was the limit on submission entries). This is the first time I've ever submitted my poetry to anything like this. It seems like it might be cool. So, if I have my poem put in this little magazine dealy it'll be pretty exciting. I usually don't like to share my poetry. I'm pretty self conscious about it, but hey, I figure for something like this where people submit poems about the "plastic people crawling forth from their plastic wombs" or some shit like that, I have as good a shot as anyone. Anyway, if I make it into this little magazine dealy, I'll be sure to tell you guys about it. (As if you shits care in the first place. <3)