So many critics are F.O.S.
so much so they can hardly sit
Some are just so full of it
Hope they don't step in it

They can dazzle you with 'fact'
As if they have put together an act
One devoid of sensibility or tact
More like some Satanic pact

Some pretend they are the world's greatest poet
They criticize the young and flaunt their vocabulary
Not realizing their verbosity or the hipocricy
and if you're younger then them, they'll let you know it

Others sit with their smoking pipes and tweed caps
angry thaty they never had an opportunity to pick up the 'clap'
and if you should injure their ego with a slap
they'll round up your pens and suck out the sap

I guess what I'm saying is that he critics can be hard
They fashion themselve to have atained the status of an old bard
But really they're just F.O.S.
They get jealous if a newbie happens to have 'it'

So keep writing your poems
And say what you want or what you feel
The critics are as hard as they are angry
They're impotent and haven't yet learned how to deal!

They just like to harp and spin your wheel
Convincing you that their credentials are real
They'll dazzle and amaze you with their factual attacks
But they're F.O.S....and that's a fact..Jack! !

JAMES T. ADAIR

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/so-many-critics-are-f-o-s/