They Will Throw Bouquets At You While Plotting Your Evisceration
they will laugh at you when you are not there
and lack the guts they can only find at the butchers to do so to your face
they will throw bouquets at you
while plotting your total evisceration
they will gossip and mock and dismiss and caricature you to each other because they fear what you know and they do not
they will offer advice and expertise to you to avoid seeing who you are
they will always be right because to be wrong is patently not credible
they will crumple your beauty in their fists and hope to toss away
they will seek each other for to be alone is to be like you
they will witness your successes aghast and never ever mention these
they will hope one day to learn you have had administered to yourself the fatal blow for this will prove them right
and then they will move on - blithely, smug, self-fulfilled and blind still and always to
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