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Abominations
Abominations
There are monsters in my closet,
Fiends,
Menaces.
They terrorize me once a week.
They wait for the chance,
Lurking,
Hiding,
Biding their time for revenge.
They stalk the dark,
Filling my dreams with horrors,
Gruesome thoughts,
Relentless fear.
One sits on a hanger,
Its nest,
Its lair,
Ready to squeeze:
An anaconda.
One waits in a box,
Submerged in the shadows,
Ready to swallow,
To gnaw,
To feed:
An alligator.
One hangs on a peg,
Long and lithe,
Ready to choke and suffocate:
A garrote.
I long to be rid of them,
To hide from them.
But they pervade my sleep,
Turning my fantasies to nightmares.
I try to run away,
To flee the scene.
Yet they force me, compel me . . .
To wear them to church.
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Well, as far as I'm concerned, my poems AREN'T anything to gloat about . . . but that doesn't mean I can't give good criticism. One of my chess teachers--his rating is actually lower than mine, but he's just a much better teacher than player. He actually coached one of the nations junior champions.
If anything, I'm more proud of my editing skills than my writing ability. I'm probably more likely to be an editor than a writer. What's most important is that I'll actually give a real critique to a piece. I won't just say, "Good Job! Keep Writing!" when I'm really thinking "there is nothing in this piece to make it stand out from the thousands of other pieces on this site," and that kind of critiquing is what makes a writer better. In chess, It's easy to determine how good you are (either you win or lose to someone with X rating), but in writing, your only gauge is others' feedback. So how can you improve if others aren't telling you how good/bad/average it really is? It also helps to give specific suggestions, which many people just aren't willing to take the time to do.
