A Letter to Andre Breton, Originally Composed on a Leaf of Lettuce With an Ink-dipped Carrot


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The first rejection was from the University of Iowa's MFA program, possibly the best creative writing program in the universe, and the second rejection was by the University of Wyoming's MFA program--the anti number one writing program in the universe. There are more cattle than people in Wyoming, and like a mindless cow, I thought I'd follow the herd to graduate school to wait out this depression.

But I didn't get in so I had to get on with my writing career on my own. I've been writing for about a decade now, and I'm getting better every ten years. I went from terrible to tolerable, and in I hope to be Tolstoy. So enjoy my work, and bear with me. I am much like my writing: I have uploaded my University of Iowa rejection letter for your enjoyment. And my birthday really is on March 5th. Are you an author? Help us improve our Author Pages by updating your bibliography and submitting a new or current image and biography.

Learn more at Author Central. Popularity Popularity Featured Price: Low to High Price: I guess I remember two words, as I remember his name too, but his name is almost sacred, as a name that shall never be uttered. Right after second grade ended my family moved to Jacksonville, Florida. It was Jacksonville that I would come to know as home, and would attend the rest of my schooling until college. At this point I was a mediocre student. I believe I had a perfect 2. My favorite classes were art, P.

Oh, is one of those not a class? No way—I believe art is still considered a class. When not cracking jokes in class, I would be doing one of three things: In high school I started to not only be mentally absent from class, but physically gone too. After high school, it was on to college.

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In all I have attended six colleges. I bounced around like a dodgeball on a trampoline.

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If you count the college classes I took starting my junior year of high school, then I got my four-year degree in nine years. All though college I fancied myself a fancy man, because I was an aspiring writer.

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Mostly I wrote t-shirt slogans and other pithy things. In the spring of I did manage to sell a line of t-shirts to Urban Outfitters. That is my lone success in life. Well, so far anyway. But my story is just beginning.

I plan on failing my way to success. I have been rejected by literary agents, publishers, MFA programs, all sorts of women. But still I keep writing.

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Mostly they are just compilations of my random thoughts and one-liners. But I like writing them, and people seem to like reading them. All my books are self-published, either through iUniverse or the wonderful Amazon Kindle program.

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I encourage everybody to write. Share yourself with the world. And you can quote me on that. Books by Jarod Kintz. Trivia About A Letter to Andre No trivia or quizzes yet. Quotes from A Letter to Andre I am so cool. He grinned at us, waiting for applause.

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What about I am so bigheaded? Zoe Nightshade turned to us. Tis not as bad as the time he visited Limerick.

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I know how to tell a woman I love her in seventeen syllables or less. Love taught me to die with dignity that I might come forth anew in splendor. Nobody can be angry and write a Hokku at the same time. Likewise, if you are crying, express your tears in seventeen syllables and you feel happy. No sooner are your thoughts down on paper, than all connection between you and the pain which caused you to cry is severed, and your only feeling is one of happiness that you are a man capable of shedding tears. How many midget feet can you fit in your shoes?

Depends on how big your penis is. Mine is 17 syllables long, like a haiku. The basis of art is change in the universe. Versions of Basho, Buson, and Issa.