The Predatory Pervert

I chatted to be chatting

and I loved where it went

a hundred I was batting

with narry a word being bent

 

Nothing was obscene

not even strange

Though I did sense a little green

on the verge of pitiful mange

 

I guess I was caught off guard

okay, it was shock

I thought I was speaking to a bard

instead it was someone holding a glock

 

All of a sudden one word

or maybe it was two

As my blood began to curd

What was I supposed to do?

 

It must have been a compliment

that I paid to my guest

Or was it sheer sentiment

for being pathetic, I must confess

 

If it was the latter

it had to have been in fun

Without Skype, what did it matter

it seemed easy to run

 

But I don't remember doing that

I'm not that type of guy

For a girl can wear a baseball hat

and punch a boy in the eye

 

It's all about deception

So glad I felt an alert

A true to life inception

Coercion into playing pervert

 

That was then and it isn't now

to entertain such wickedness I wonder how

did it come to pass that I would see

how online dating isn't reality

Reviews

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. ohhhh ... this poem is needed ... it truly is needed ... even though i met eben over the internet ... we never flirted ... not once ... we never flirted otherwise too but that's another story ... we read each other's poems and we reviewed them ... and then he sent me a friend request ... i wished him on his birthday that year (2008) and we spoke on the phone ... and then ... 15 days later he was at my doorstep ... (the connection was one poem he wrote that i responded to in a poem and it went from english to hindustani and into our lives and our childhood and it was so pure that he said "you've honoured me with something beautiful, i just want to hug you and take off on a trip around the universe", it was that pure) ... and then i've met some really remarkable friends online ... and they're all in the anthology ... but this is rare ... as rare as it can get ...

. your poem is super relevant ... super cutting edge ... super insightful ... and super needed for anyone who spends a lot of time online ... my god, one has to be discerning ...