Vicious Attacks in the Guise of Humor

Vicious Attacks in the Guise of Humor

A Poem by Elton Camp
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Vicious Attacks in the Guise of Humor

 

By Elton Camp

 

“Where’s your sense of humor?  I was just joking.”

This comes from a man that I’d like to be choking

People who get a laugh at someone else’s expense

Makes me wish that either I, or they, were far hence

 

Because such teasing comes from family or “friend,”

The outraged victim is not supposed himself to defend

The truly clueless continue such foolish talk to relate

After being seriously warned, “That I don’t appreciate.”

 

Those comments that one’s appearance or traits ridicule

Really show that the speaker is mostly an ignorant mule

Personally, I have decided that I will not take it anymore

“Don’t talk to me like that, you idiot. I’ve told you before.”

 

 

© 2011 Elton Camp


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Elton Camp
Elton Camp

Russellville, AL



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I am retired from college teaching/administration and writing as a hobby. My only "publications" are a weekly column in our local newspaper. Most of my writing is prose, but I do produce some "poetr.. more..

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