Lies And Insults

Why don’t we cheer each other up

by saying, You haven’t aged a bit!

not noticing whether each other drool.

I won’t say, Jesus Christ! Your hands!

They look like a couple of clobbered crabs

that competed unsuccessfully for

The Kingdom of Straighter Fingers!

And you won’t say anything either,

I hope, about my shrunken shank,

(as Shakespeare called it, with his ability

to insult pretty much everyone),

never mind poor innocents like ourselves.