People Talk
people talk
it doesn’t matter about who
the truth isn’t as relevant as
the opportunity for spite
in fact the worse the better
who wants to believe the best
about anyone
when the worst is so much more interesting
it’s important to bring the good
down a peg or two
who do they think they are anyway
they aren’t any better
than the rest of us
even if they aren’t one of us
even if we we would never
do what we say they’ve done
we see through their facade
the sooner they get caught the better
no one is innocent
merely uncaught
The 227 Rules for Monks are often variations on each other – who knew micromanagement was part of the simple life – as a result some of these pieces are variations too. Part of the challenge of using the rules as prompts is to push harder against the restrictions of the variations – much like classical composers or jazz musicians or improv comedy I let things spin then edit – if I ever pull these pieces together for a collection I’d edit out the the repetitions.
The title of this came last but it reflects the nature of our relationship with the press, which hasn’t changed since Oscar Wilde’s day. As is made clear by the current US president who gloats ever getting all the bad press he can generate. He has becomes an easy target for people to vent at – how much of that venting is sincere & how much is merely an opportunity for spite.
Stand-up comedy is almost entirely based on slavering cruelty. You could take routines from the 50’s, change names of targets & they’d fit in today. All that is different the level of anatomical vulgarity – the ten mother-fucking words one couldn’t say are now words you hear on cock-sucking sitcoms today 🙂
The piece is also about the emotional need that gossip fulfills, giving ‘us’ the opportunity to, momentarily, feel superior to those we gossip about – though sometimes it is tinged with envy – wishing we could get away with how the President consistently gets away with it. In today’s world it seems to be better to get caught & get away with it than not to get caught.
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