The Rating Game On P/H Poem by Herbert Nehrlich

There is so much debating
on this well-travelled forum
about the poets' rating
and less about decorum.
The ones that have no readers
or fans of any kind
sound just like heavy bleeders
with one big axe to grind.
The make those strange excuses
about what counts, what not
imagine some great uses
for work that's posted but
and when they look at hits
and see much empty space
they might just get the shits
and would like to erase
some nasty evidence
they do not realise
that they and their great friends
have lows and sometimes highs
and that their work is read
by few if any others
Why don't they go to bed
and read it to their mothers.
The ratings are a joke
presented by the layman
it's just as if a bloke
was rated by a gay man.
So, stop your silly fretting
the ones mean zilch and zero
instead you could be getting
the label of a hero
by giving out some tens
and let them know you did
to roosters and to hens
it will surprise you kid.