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Showing posts with label deepening dishonesty. Show all posts
Showing posts with label deepening dishonesty. Show all posts

Friday, 24 October 2025

The Truth About Vanity

How do you make a narcissist laugh?
Feed him a line about the weakness
of those he affects to despise. A line 
that makes their perceived character
a joke that does not need a punchline.

Only don't make the description of weakness
in others too truthful, it might reveal
to the recipient the truth about their vanity.
 

Saturday, 21 July 2012

The Fronts We Put Up


to make good fences often shut out neighbourliness.
Every night the sun descends on the fronts
we have erected, only for the following day
those same fronts to leave us shut in,
leaving others further shut out-
until we see what we cannot accept;
a cumulative dishonesty which repeats itself ad nauseam
which then becomes the retreat into escapism.

The ebb and flow of weather fronts is self balancing,
a cycle in which, dependent on the wind,
rain in one place means sun elsewhere.
In the flow of how we behave
rain from one person means 
rain on another, a monoculture!

If I were not so leaky, and full of holes
I would like to be someone's umbrella.