And now for our (optional) prompt. Today, I’d like to challenge you to write a poem in the form of a review. But not a review of a book or a movie of a restaurant. Instead, I challenge you to write a poetic review of something that isn’t normally reviewed. For example, your mother-in-law, the moon, or the year 2020 (I think many of us have some thoughts on that one!)
Revealing the reviewers
27 April 20
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You make pithy comments on my work so you can get paid
I make the subject material that puts food on your plate
You’ve trained your readers to look upon us with a smirk
I’ve trained my eye to observe the greatest arts work
You say you’re doing a service to educate the public and keep away the frauds
This is your mirror start from there and say no more
If you dont understand a piece, ask
I thought you were learned and sought to illuminate
If the piece isn’t for you then say nothing
Trust your readers taste, because they might find its for them
Did you really go to the opening
Or was it you had a date and were to cheap to spring for a typical dinner and movie
Did your date not put out that night
And that is why I am slammed
If your date could rate your performance would she be kind enough to give you a star and a half, or would she write in the women’s bathroom of every bar you frequent in paint marker the actual size of your manhood
You study the artist, we study the art
You rail against us when we question your “authority” so the challenge is thrown
Pick up the brush, let us see what you really know.
