Saturday, December 5, 2020

Don't Let the Devil Drive

It’s exhausting to hear the yammering of a narcissist.
(Please wake me when it’s over!)
A narcissist makes you settle for less

than you’d otherwise
have settled for. But you’re sleeping in clover,
and, except for the constant yammering of the narcissist,

you feel you’ve been blessed by fate.
But get out the nail polish remover
or you’ll have to settle for nothing less

than black pen stains on your lamb-white shirt.
You want to find another lover
to help you escape from your yammering narcissist,

but you’ve started to feel your very right to exist
is under siege. So, you agree to send the Jews to Poland,
settling for the very worst

bargain—letting a narcissist camp in your bailiwick.
The slippery slope goes all the way to
hell, when you’re enduring the devil’s bailiff’s
unmasked kiss.