"i heard you were a poet - but a poet of no words?"

4.30.2010

the art of critique

only hot girls buy those coats
they must not allow the ugly ones to buy them.
no, it’s because the fat ones won’t
they know they’re for the hot femmes.

and the ugly girls are depressed
and that makes them have no style
they get dressed simply to get dressed
and stop being naked for a while.

only insecure people are nice.
they think that if they’re polite and smile
other people won’t realize
that they’re ugly and plain, and while

it’s possible that they are genuinely sweet
and that the pretty girls really are just bitches,
society encourages the behavior to keep
on enduring, because they don’t care which

girls are ugly, only which ones are pretty -
so they don’t notice that the uglies
are the nice ones, and the pretty
anes are rude and bitches and sluts and uglies

on the inside. (cliché, I know)
and there is more to the pretties
than I am saying here and now,
but that is what it is to critique -

to say your own opinion as fact
and to ignore the other side of things
and while you secretly feel bad
you enjoy the excitement of being mean.