Sunday, July 02, 2006

Gossip


My innocent little action
Created such a reaction -
Neither equal nor opposite
(As Newton once did admit)
As unpleasant as uterine contractions

Making a mountain of a mole hill
Is an art and needs the skill
To take a little piece of news
Adulterate and abuse
Until the subject is totally bedeviled

Tales carry through the grapevine
The original now redesigned
Around me they clutter
Tongues aflutter
With doubts I hate to illumine

In a bleak attempt to allay
This dreary state of disarray
I relocate to Shanghai
Away from their roving eye
Until they discover a brand-new prey

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I feel your pain... any room in Shanghai for one more?