Today I was feeling rather queasy
and had a goal to take it easy
so when this one dear friend of mine
proposed to play board games online
there was no reason to think twice
but we’d not even rolled the dice
when I heard Outlook’s dreadful chime
I tried to close the browser tab
but my gaze was easy to grab.
The email came straight from arXiv
who find our paper can’t go live
due to overlap and repetition
with one more article submission.
They kindly ask us to combine
them back in one, so to revive
the longer paper that once was
and for the journal was lost cause.
It’s funny how they could compare
with something that’s not even there.
Could be a mistake, I would dare say
and I’d appeal if that’s ok.