National Poetry Month 2021 Billy throwback

[dukealien]

Why would you say that? What garbage?

A lot of reasons actually, mostly because I wrote most of my poems within an hour of putting up a prompt, practically word vomit, and you know the old saying, one mans vomit is another man's dinner.  I'm of the school not to trust flattery either, unjustified compliments will just encourage poor behavior.  Great work takes time and effort.  So I'll call it garbage whether it's gold or dirt, when I'm done with it in my brain, i throw it out to the garbage and you can either scavenge or scoff.

Yup.  When you don't know you've written trash it's time for the critics to wise you up.  If you *know* you've written trash, well... you might be mistaken.  And they might tell you.