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Oh, the critics, When you use, Your fleshy and sticky tongues, Or, When, You scrawl your sharp pens, To peel the skin, Of your alleged offenders, Then, You look like a butcher, Chopping and mincing the meat and bones, Or you like a vulture, Sipping the blood of a half-dead cattle, Come shed your literary arrogance, And wrap your forked tongue, In a cozy shawl of praise, And prove that, To correct the torn skin, A pair of surgeon’s scissors is needed, And not a butcher’s knife, For sure…….
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Apr 3, 2018
Apr 3, 2018 at 3:11 PM UTC
shahid-khan
Ode to critics!
Oh, the critics, When you use, Your fleshy and sticky tongues, Or, When, You scrawl your sharp pens, To peel the skin, Of your alleged offenders, Then, You look like a butcher, Chopping and mincing the meat and bones, Or you like a vulture, Sipping the blood of a half-dead cattle, Come shed your literary arrogance, And wrap your forked tongue, In a cozy shawl of praise, And prove that, To correct the torn skin, A pair of surgeon’s scissors is needed, And not a butcher’s knife, For sure…….
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