In my email: “You have won,

Your writing is great!

Just send in this fee

Well worth it, you’ll agree.

For your money you will receive

Inclusion in our leather bound book

And for a bit more a pin and a paper

To tell all others of your outstanding accomplishment

And another bit of news:

Be one of the chosen few

Named “Whos Who in this world

Where only a few are accepted

And you are so special

What a deal we have for you

For just a few hundred you can be there too

Your name on our roster, what we can do for you

Then, a final bit of news:

Wanna be rich, make your yearly in a month?

Put up some of that hard earned cash

And, you, special hard working you --you, can learn all my secrets too

Well, if I were so special and talented et al

I think that I probably wouldn’t be asked

(And preyed upon because i crave what you offer)

To pay for each inclusion, honor and opportunity

I would just be asked