Watch your Mouth

A note to The Tick,

watch your mouth.

People really need to think

before blurting out your words.

“Don’t worry, your work is low

quality and Triond would have to

pay a publisher to sell your stuff.”

Tick was rude.  Perhaps even

jealous and ticked would sum it up.

Of course the two poems he read

weren’t of substance.

I didn’t mean them to be.

And this one won’t be of substance

either.

I’m not intending this one to be

substance either.

I am just writing this one to state

a fact.

Writers need to try to keep

their mouths shut if they have

nothing good to say.

And if you intend to criticize,

be nice about it and give tips

and stress what some of the good

points are.  No need to get nasty.

Who is to say that Tick is a terrible writer.

He is just one opinion.

This writing community needs to

keep good face

and keep up a friendly manner.

And Triond’s Nasty Rumors and Rumors

poems were just poems I wrote

about what I had heard from another writer.

And he heard it from someone else.

We really have no facts about

the idea of Triond selling our stuff to publishers.

I was just stressing a concern

about what might have happened.

If it wasn’t Triond,

it could have been someone else

who stole someone’s stuff and sold it.

We don’t know.

A rumor is spreading.

So until I hear back from Triond

about the matter,

I will not write any poem

of substance.

Once again, this isn’t a substance poem.

I could care less about this one.

I am just raising some points

to other writers.

Be kind, rewind and if there’s nothing

good to say, keep it to yourself.

We don’t need to hear

someone telling us

that our stuff is low quality

and crap.

Not neccessary.

Jennifer Jo Fay

copyrighted February 6, 2012