Magellan – Critic’s Carnival

The Solano County Engineering Archives, vault 1

Feel free, write your scathing indictment

Pick us apart with your joke of a pen

Pacified poet, standing alone you know it

I hear you preaching:

“Do it again – won’t you please do it again?”

Plenty of time – hear the hypocrites whine

Pathetic business –

take it, test it, know it, burn it

It’s all a game you play so mealy mouthed

at the trough we lay

I hear you pleading:

“Do it again – won’t you please do it again?”

Take it all upon you now

Make you mark somehow

and keep it going

With illusions that you’re real

and phrases that you’ll steall

At your best you’ll drag them down

I’ve heard it all before

it’s all been said before

extending all an invitation – welcome to the

Critic’s Carnival –

Where writers think they know more than you

No, don’t be a fool at Critic’s Carnival

A bully pulpit built to spin a phrase

will “pitch” a sermon for you

if you’ve got the money to pay at the

Critic’s Carnival

buy fifty dollar words, try bull-shit

No, don’t be deceived at Critic’s Carnival…

Invite us to your ivory tower

Impress me with your

insightfull gift of genius

Yes, you can dish it out

A coward too much clout

Hungry for power –

Do it again – won’t you please do it again?

Monday morning’s last draft quarterback

Get it right get it wrong

We’ve just dragged on too long

It’s all a game you play

so mealy mouthed at the through we lay

I know you hear me!

Do it again won’t you please do it again?

Well?