Thank you for submitting “Paradise Lost” to the Old Yorker. We regret we cannot publish your poem. We appreciate your sanguinary devotion to hoary sinners. You certainly have a way with snakes.
If you have anything short ending with an “ah” moment of lyric transport we’d love to see it.
Yours,
Cuthbert Quiller
Sub-sub-Cartesian Proof Reader and Mail Clerk
Who Knows the Most about Microsoft Exchange
and Cleans the Coffee Maker to the Standards of
His Nibbs.
Planet of the Blind 