I've just thought of the answer to this and related questions. All you do is to change the title of your poem. Change it completely. Then it will not appear on any search anyone cares to make. And presto! Back to selling your good stuff serially.
Incidentally, I once pulled a poem that had been accepted by the Times Literary Supplement because it had appeared somewhere else. I needn't have bothered. He told me later that he couldn't have cared less where it had appeared.
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