A Visit From the Comment Fairy

I had a visit from the comment fairy Her pencil dull, her arms quite hairy He said that she didn’t like my verse A critique quite subtle and sharply terse He said that she said they want it re-wrote Enclosing a hint, and a final verse quote He said that she said that errors were made Implied that the poem just won’t make the grade Suggested the lines too often repeated Should be rewritten, or at least deleted And so I took paper, and pencil, and then Started the computer and logged in again Did all the things that he she and they Said would make it the “Poem of the Day” But after I’d done it – done it their way I crumpled it up and threw it away Perhaps, in truth, it might have been stronger But the words and the tone weren’t mine any longer. John G. Lawless 9/10/2021