Well folks, after 2 months of waiting, here goes.

I emailed DeviantArt FIRST because I felt that they would help me. The only thing they gave me (after 3 weeks mind you) is this crappy reply - "In cases such as yours, your only recourse is to consult with a copyright attorney for actual legal counsel."

Thanks for the help DevArt. Remind me never to go to them for help again.

So I then started looking into the policies of the site she published through, Lulu.com. They're plagiarism policy is strict, if you're caught, they close your account and all this other fun shit. But I still would've needed to obtain legal counsel, which I was trying very hard not to do.

I finally directly emailed Lynn King. I told her that I was no longer agreeing to let this slide and be "co-authors" and that she either needed to take the book out of circulation or take my poem out of it. She then emailed me back with a sob story about how having it re-edited would be like $180 and she didn't have the money. She then told me about how she only ever made $240 off of selling the books anyway and they cost her $189 to have published. So she didn't have any money to share with me and she hadn't sold a book in over a year. She then emailed me a number of links to poems that either only shared my theme or were published after mine with the claim "I bet no one can really know who wrote this poem."

That set me off.

I promptly emailed her back and told her that I wrote the poem and if she did not do something NOW I would contact her publisher and they would destroy her account.

She took the book down and emailed me another sob story about how I was only doing this because I knew she was on probation and any trouble with the law could send her back to jail. Personally, I don't care. She took the book out of circulation and I have my poem back. That's all I wanted.

So that's how it went down. Still working on that writing thing. I really swear I am. I just sit down sometimes and I get like 5 or 6 lines and then I run out of inspiration. I need to get a good one going so that I can finally FINISH one.

Thanks again to everyone who supported me.

<3 Poison