We know that many teens write poetry, short stories, novellas and a whole bunch of other stuff that might be great.
But The Tattoo is a newspaper. We only print the sorts of things that are generally found in newspapers: news stories, features, columns, reviews, comics, photographs and such.
We understand there are papers that make room for poetry or even fiction, but we’re not among them.
That and you don’t want to have any part in adding to the volumes and volumes of terrible teenage poetry that already exist.
Come on. Admit it.