Poetic Critique

commentator wrote a critique that was six times longer than the poem itself He demanded the poet explain her intentions the critique sounded irritated and annoyed Frustrated and insane She laughed when she read it She had spent six seconds penning her six lines he had spent possibly an hour rewriting his critique She stared at the poem Not remembering it When had she written it? She looked at the date One a.m. this morning. She laughed even harder. Her one a.m. self and her four-thirty in the afternoon self did not recognize each other. She wrote back these three words “get over yourself.”