Dear Editor

First, please tell me it's
Wonderful, then be
agonizingly shrewd.
Deconstruct my art:
cut it up into
fourteen thousand fragments,
and sweep them under
the door. Make me
grovel on my knees,
before your holy feet.
Show me how to put
the pieces back together,
to salvage the beauty
from the wreckage.
This way, I accept
my torture, and present
you with a manuscript
worthy of your divinity.