The Administrative Side

I have to admit I find the administrative side satisfying.  Sending out poems, keeping track of where I have sent poems, noting where poems have been rejected and accepted.  I have now pulled together a chapbook size manuscript from the poems I have written over the last few years (a number of which have been published).  The trick is not to be seduced by that, to think that being published or, better, being organized about being published is an art.  It is not.  It cannot, but will attempt, to substitute itself for the necessary idleness and grace. I don't want to wrap myself in duct tape and think that I have created something..