All civilised critics
embrace dishevelment
as their primary affectation.
Wet the tips
of gaudy fountain pens
with their funny pink tongues.
Cut in sparkling prose,
chastisements of disappointed parents
with a corrective knot
on every 7th braid of the lash.
Image: Critics Acrylic Painting on Chemigram
from a series on Photopoetry & Visual Art - Steve Nimmons