Do I call myself out with a sarcastic voice?
I give myself quite the roast.
But voice is a literary device.
Who’s talking is the hearer's choice.
Am I the one tying my horse to a post
and addressing the beast with a sarcastic voice?
Then, also, who’s being addressed?
Who needs to hear it most?
But voice is a literary device—
a bunch of resentments that got repressed
and then, when I looked away, became a ghost
that started berating me with a sarcastic voice
I saying not a word in my own defense.
Whom can you trust
when you employ a literary device?
I do it mainly to clean the mice
out of the laundry room, but now I’ve burned the toast,
so I call myself out with a sarcastic voice.
Dumb-ass ventriloquist!
