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[rayheinrich]

Thanks for your feedback, Billy
Thanks also for your comment, tectak, but with all due respect feedback doesn't work that way. The critic offers his opinion on the piece, and then the writer decides whether he'll use it to improve his work. I don't think a critic should demand this and that and withhold further commentary unless the writer complies. If you can't be bothered to give me feedback, that's your perogative and I'll respect it.

While it may not be that politic, saying you'd bother to critque a poem
further if certain changes were made is at least honest and does, i think,
provide a bit of critical insight. Besides, no matter how it is stated,
you're still totally free to act on or ignore whatever advice you get.

P.S. Maybe someone should start a discussion topic on why summation
lines are so universally reviled. i(I), for one, just hate them. But, in all
honesty, there seems to be an irrational element to it. Maybe i harbor
an unreasoning prejudice against them that, if overcome, would render
them beautiful, or, at least, innocuous. Must stop, running low on commas.