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Marcia Abboud's avatar

I learned more about baseball from this poem than at any other time! ⚾ I laughed too. The image is gold and just how I pictured you at that age Nance 😆 Congrats on being published in The Twin Bill, that's bloody awesome! 🙌 Life is hectic! Ignore your inbox. Sometimes it's necessary 😘 Love your work!!

Nancy Santos's avatar

Thank you so much, Diva! Yeah I see myself in that girl, makes me wonder if she grew up and started calling people cunts. 😂

Marcia Abboud's avatar

🤣🤣 I'd be so disappointed if she didn't! 🤣 GOLD.

Patrick Eades's avatar

I never knew there was a baseball literary journal, well done! Hope the hecticness dies down soon. And sounds like you've had some more acceptances. Congrats!

Nancy Santos's avatar

Thank you! I seem to do better with themed places/submissions where I don’t have to wonder what the fuck they want. There’s a journal called Alice Says Go Fuck Yourself that seems fitting for me but they’re closed now. 😂

Rea de Miranda's avatar

I love this, Nancy! The picture was a great choice.

Nancy Santos's avatar

Thank you so much, Rea! 💜

John Pearce😀🦋🌈 🦅🌻's avatar

This is a poem...... Hope all is well Nancy 😀

Nancy Santos's avatar

My apologies, it is a poem. 😂

Thank you, Mr Pearce. All is well, just busy.

John Pearce😀🦋🌈 🦅🌻's avatar

You don’t get much past me Nancy. Pleased to hear all is well - and it’s generally good to be busy!

Charles Bastille's avatar

"I do have some new poems (not previously published on Medium) I’m waiting to be published in journals before I can post them."

I love that. Good for you and yay!

I don't like posting Notes, either, but I do it anyway. But they don't get distributed as well as they used to.

Nancy Santos's avatar

Thank you! And they removed the following tab, so I’m not sure I even get shown everyone’s notes.

Charles Bastille's avatar

I don't fully understand the system. Anytime an algorithm is involved, it's not good. It should just be time based feed of your followers, not the app's best guess about what you might be interested in.

Boots Davidovitch's avatar

I love the energy here, Nancy! Speaking of energy, I'm delighted to read that you're living life out loud and large in real time. That brings the juice to the poems, imao. I'm glad to see this one! Play ball!

Nora O’Dowd's avatar

Oooh, this is wonderful with the perfect illustration!

Debdutta Pal's avatar

Oh, how I adore her energy. I want to be her. This poem is everything, and not just because it made me interested in baseball.

Congrats on getting published!! The Lit Mag waiting game is something else. Perhaps that needs its own poem. I ignore my inbox like I ignore my issues. It's cathartic. 😆

Now I'll re-read the poem with the music. 🎶