learning how to be submissive

I've spent today reading and researching and generally exploring the whole subject of where I might send my work for possible publication. This gets very depressing, as I have one of two reactions when reading a journal's work: 1) Wow, this is really crappy. I don't want my work appearing alongside poetry this bad. 2) Wow, this is really great. There's no way they'd pick me.

Remember: never join a club that would have you as a member.

So it's a painful process, and I realize why it's so much easier just to do my own thing, put up my own website, self-publish a little chapbook.