from what you say there is a test
of poetry skills, they want the best
articulators, tried and true
as uncle sam says "they want you!"
miss snark in person (or in spirit)
will read our literary pirouettes,
and for our honours will awarded be
that golden apple of knowledges tree,
the goal, the possible future chance
to join the stately authors dance
and be acclaimed by critical mind;
as long as your query is defined.
well if this rumour is attested
(and i challenge here not to be be bested)
my 50 pages will soon follow
if the plot isn't hard to swallow.
good luck to all and luck to me
encased as it is in poetry!

yes, but mine was quite rotten.  It was a paper letter two sentences long and not even signed.  it wasn't even from the agent that I sent it too.  So--I pulled the entire agency from my listing.  So there--we are even now.  Hey, it's all a mind game anyway.  What was yours like?

Nothing beats the poet who had her poem returned to her torn up in little tiny pieces!  Now that was an agent's assistant who was having a very bad, horrible etc day...