Well, I guess someone has to be. I doubt it'd be much good for my mental health if all I listened to were my own critiques. I don't think anything I wrote would escape a fate in the trash can.

It certainly can be, if that's how you'd like to read it. I'm rather fond of leaving things open to interpretation, letting people give things their own meanings. As much as something I write is mine, I feel like poetry is something that you always put a bit of yourself into when you read it.