| Ella: | Hey, fancy here - what's this bit of rubbish? |
| Juanita: | Sum high-flaunting piece aboot literature I suppose - |
- One View -
Poets need critics like dogs need fleas
And to critics, poets err nothing but
Animals to latch onto 'n suck
Til words are analyzed
And reviews complete.
Critics are simply verbal parasites
Yet despite their vexing existence
Poetry thrives.
- Another View -
Poets are self-intoxicated
Lumps of cultural debris
Who delude themselves into imagining
They have things worth saying
Or insights of beauty.
Most of them
Merely produce literary trash.
Critics are needed
To sift through the rubble
& see if
Anything is worthy to last.
| Jack: | I wouldn't worry about that piece too much. It seems the poet is too full ah contradictions. |
| Jake: | Isn't that bloke is a wag too contradictory? |
