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Tongue-in-cheek self-critique
This is hopeless.
This so-called poem
Is making me gag.
Dead on arrival
Complete with toe tag.
See what happens when
You try to write dopeless?
The muse, as you can see,
Has not yet come,
Nor are you, with your lack of talent,
Likely to be
Or not to be clever
On your own.
Who cares, dude?
You wanna get sued?
Your raggedy-ass rhyme
Is, to be blunt, a crime.
Whatever.
You have not sacrificed enough.
You have made the bed,
Washed dishes,
Vacuumed,
Repented of this sin, that.
All this and more
Has gone to your head
And you call that sacrifice?
Nay, ‘twill not suffice.
Your o’erweening guff,
Sadly, is not enough
To still your raucous tongue.
This first rough draft
Is, to be kind, daft dung.
Are you out of your mind?
Put that in your hat
And smoke it.
Or, better yet, your pipe
And toke it.
This is obviously not a poem.
These are words with stubby wings,
Atavistic, devolved, obscene things,
An Icarus with leaden words,
Not to mention plageristic blurbs.
Mumble, grumble, stumble, tumble—
See? See how you fumble?
You are no Icarus!
You are a flightless bee, a bumble-ing
Bicarus.
Stop! You’re making me
Sicarus.
No songs will leap forth
So stop complaining.
Quote Polonius as he’s mansplaining:
Stay awhile, Madam.
I will be…feckless, reckless,
Hiding behind the curtain,
Lose my head and be neckless
For certain.
Cast pearls before swine
From a purloined necklace.
An anachronistic trainwreckless.
When the words will not come
Pout, blame,
Sit in a corner
Suck your thumb
Be mad as hell,
Struck dumb
With rage
But whatever you do
Do not turn the page
And get on with it, bro.
Admit that it’s bad sith git-go.
In the room the wimmens
Come and go
Talking of Don Draper
Romancing Progressive Flo.
No! You are not Dense Hammlet
Nor are meant to be, forsooth,
Just a wannabe scribbler
A truthtelling fibbler
On the roof
Seeking the comely wench
Or, in your case, crescent wrench
Of poetry.
Which obviously ain’t gonna happen
So you might as well just snappen
Out of it,
Pout a bit,
And…
QUIT.
This so-called poem
Is making me gag.
Dead on arrival
Complete with toe tag.
See what happens when
You try to write dopeless?
The muse, as you can see,
Has not yet come,
Nor are you, with your lack of talent,
Likely to be
Or not to be clever
On your own.
Who cares, dude?
You wanna get sued?
Your raggedy-ass rhyme
Is, to be blunt, a crime.
Whatever.
You have not sacrificed enough.
You have made the bed,
Washed dishes,
Vacuumed,
Repented of this sin, that.
All this and more
Has gone to your head
And you call that sacrifice?
Nay, ‘twill not suffice.
Your o’erweening guff,
Sadly, is not enough
To still your raucous tongue.
This first rough draft
Is, to be kind, daft dung.
Are you out of your mind?
Put that in your hat
And smoke it.
Or, better yet, your pipe
And toke it.
This is obviously not a poem.
These are words with stubby wings,
Atavistic, devolved, obscene things,
An Icarus with leaden words,
Not to mention plageristic blurbs.
Mumble, grumble, stumble, tumble—
See? See how you fumble?
You are no Icarus!
You are a flightless bee, a bumble-ing
Bicarus.
Stop! You’re making me
Sicarus.
No songs will leap forth
So stop complaining.
Quote Polonius as he’s mansplaining:
Stay awhile, Madam.
I will be…feckless, reckless,
Hiding behind the curtain,
Lose my head and be neckless
For certain.
Cast pearls before swine
From a purloined necklace.
An anachronistic trainwreckless.
When the words will not come
Pout, blame,
Sit in a corner
Suck your thumb
Be mad as hell,
Struck dumb
With rage
But whatever you do
Do not turn the page
And get on with it, bro.
Admit that it’s bad sith git-go.
In the room the wimmens
Come and go
Talking of Don Draper
Romancing Progressive Flo.
No! You are not Dense Hammlet
Nor are meant to be, forsooth,
Just a wannabe scribbler
A truthtelling fibbler
On the roof
Seeking the comely wench
Or, in your case, crescent wrench
Of poetry.
Which obviously ain’t gonna happen
So you might as well just snappen
Out of it,
Pout a bit,
And…
QUIT.
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