Today I spent the minutes I had between taking my daughter to camp, having a doctor’s appointment of my own, picking my daughter up, taking the kids to the pool (almost 100 degrees! whew!), etc… revising and getting some submissions ready to send out.  I have two poems about physics (and many more planned), which is a subject I’m passionate about.  If I were better at math, I’d have been a physicist.  Anyway, one of the poems is humorous.  The third poem I sent in the batch is also humorous.  They’re as well crafted as any of my poems, but they aren’t about anything deep, like love or death or angst.  I have written many of these funny poems because I find humor in much of life, and can see easily filling a whole manuscript with them.  The question I’m thinking about tonight, though, is whether anyone will find them valuable enough to publish as a book?  I’m thinking from the perspective of a publisher.  Will a publisher only take a manuscript if the poems are deep or edgy or wrenching or intellectual?  Or at least aesthetically beautiful?  My poems are about things like evil Russian overlords running me down, or explaining iambic pentameter to my chiropractor.  I love them (and I love finding humor in the poetry of others) but will anyone else?