Please Critique My Write

Please Critique My Write

A Poem by Elton Camp
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What is actually behind a request like this.

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Please Critique My Write

 

By Elton Camp

 

There’s a request from which I intend to shrink

“I want you to tell me what you really think”

It may seem to ask your honest opinion to tell

But unless it’s praise they’ll be as mad as hell

 

Although I’ve gotten pulled into this trap before

That’s certainly not going to happen any more

Even if the write is dull, error-filled and trite

What they want to hear is your endless delight

 

Even the slightest criticism will drive them wild

It’s almost as if you had just slapped their child

And whether it’s a stranger or some friend,

Know that you’ll never hear from them again

 

Thus, to your advantage you can make that work

For you’ll never again have to deal with that jerk

But you must expect them to publicly criticize

And say you are presumptuous, mean and tell lies

 

© 2011 Elton Camp


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Don't get me wrong but I feel this is a very aimed piece of writine that shoudl hang on the profiles af all the serious reviewers on here, well done.

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Elton Camp
Elton Camp

Russellville, AL



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I am retired from college teaching/administration and writing as a hobby. My only "publications" are a weekly column in our local newspaper. Most of my writing is prose, but I do produce some "poetr.. more..

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