Critical Listening Poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar

Critical listening.
With a doing done,
To listen critically.
Normally excused by many to do,
Refusing advice to them given.
Quick to return judgemental attitudes.
Attached to intact,
Evaluations to make wasting time.
Gone to leave behind,
Should these threatening times be left.
A mindset confined to limitation,
Can victimize in unsuspected ways.

No one,
Whether rich, poor or can afford...
Gold plated knobs on bathroom doors.
Should think themselves above,
Listening critically.
Rather done to do to the garbage man.
Maid.
Or the coolaide maker.
These are not the times,
To pour and sip tea.
These are coffee to smell it times.
Hoping to leave the benefactor,
Today, tomorrow, weeks and months to come...
Avoiding a cascading,
Of failures in the past to have created!