Your Baby Looks Odd

Poets are very sensitive
And creative people -
Or so I’m told
Just don’t offer a comment
That’s less than pure gold
Golly gee, awesome
And the imagery was superb
Sucked up like a vacuum
In a judgmental world

Criticism, be it constructive
Or veiled in verbiage
Amounts to an assault
On their intellectual courage
Much akin to telling
A new mother
In the grace of God:
“Gee your newborn baby -
Looks odd”