The Claim

Old Joseph-Z has now rehearsed
the bald assertion he has made with frequency
that here on DUP
there is no one who wants,
or feels the need, to  read
my “overlong” critiques
of his attempts at verse.
He says, within a kind of hissy fit,
that they are all off-putting screeds.

So please, I wonder if you’ll take
a little time to write
and let me know just how you feel
about these churlish claims.

Post here upon this page
(or on the one
where Joseph spews disdain
on my critiques**)
some words that show your take
on whether it is true that you don’t want
to read the posts of mine
that note with reasoned details
how and why his “poems” are
quite poorly writ and often show a lack of wit
or knowledge of just what it is
of which good poetry consists.


**"Don't you stop using this style of MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING. No one is ready to read your long winded writing. Perhaps, you use this style because you don't want them to read your boring stuff."

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