"You worthless, acid-sucking piece of illiterate shit! Don’t ever send this kind of brain-damaged swill in here again. If I had the time, I’d come out there and drive a fucking wooden stake into your forehead. Why don’t you get a job, germ? Maybe delivering advertising handouts door to door, or taking tickets for a wax museum. You drab South Bend cocksuckers are all the same; like those dope-addled dingbats at the Rolling Stone office. I’d like to kill those bastards for sending me your piece … and I’d just as soon kill you, too. Jam this morbid drivel up your ass where your readership will better appreciate it."

Hunter S. Thompson's prepared form rejection letter - following his success with "Fear and Loathing", he found himself with a pile of unsolicited poetry submissions. He prepared this form letter for Rolling Stone to send out with those articles it deemed unworthy...

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