Why Criticize? Poem by Dillon Gay

Why do you criticize this?
If you don't understand, you throw it into the abyss
Of forgotten ideas and scientific failures
You discourage them you little, dumb gopher!

Using words that are not commonplace around you
Brings anxiety from your friends, too
At least they aren't fools like the one
You, the one that is dumb just for fun

I know you are smarter than this
Now act differently and give your mistake boo-boos a kiss
And I'm not perfect, either
But dumb or ignorant... I'm neither!

Just believe me now
Don't be as ornery as a sterile milk cow
Your wasteful comments are not needed
Because I know who I am, and you have not succeeded