when a friend asks for crit

[Achebe]

If you did that the poem would simply resurface as a form of neurosis.

You mean the poem must out? I wrote something on that in the misc forum but it escaped people's attention who'd much rather see cliched things  like the Mona Lisa (or in Leanne's case, The Voice).

If the poem resurfaces, you gotta take your dog for a run. Nothing that the boring suburban life couldn't cure.