Fishing For Feedback Poem by C Richard Miles

You fish for feedback so you can improve;
You crave creative candid criticism of your oeuvre:
You seek the sage submissions they submit;
You ask for arguments against your wit.

But all you reap are rudimentary reflections,
Slick sycophants slip sick, saccharine suggestions
Adoring acolytes augment with adulation thick
While whimpering well-wishers wash wet with hero-worship.

Yet when the one true critic prates his prose
You stagger from the brusqueness of his blows
And reel, refusing to accept analysis.
As he explains exactly how it is.