You can justify it
a couple of ways.
You can use a base of accurate,
clear-sighted well-wrought praise
to cover for the urgently-needy
need of a trenchant, or piquant or lucid
point of critique,
or two,
or more. Or:
the converse is good, as well!
Whichever works best for you,
by all means: indulge
in letting it out.
It may be just what
they never knew,
they wouldn't have thought,
or some other surprise
that removes from them
any irksome or painful kernel
of doubt they have lodged
in their teeth,
as to whether or what
they've done's worth
noticing.
- surprise
is the small, hard seed
that grows to hope.
And it's also the key,
but there isn't a door, in this case.
I should draw this now to a close,
before mixed metaphor
is acquired by taste.
But the point is, whatever you say
they will know that you cared enough
to risk egg on your face.
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