Gossip

 

I overhear gossip and wonder why  other men's affairs are such a popular topic of conversation among those of the human persuasion.   Is this a hobby that will be worth looking back on in senior years?  Or something easily forgotten, shelved alongside favors owed and promises broken, behind that locked door of things conveniently misplaced?  When I was approached I saw no profit in guessing  motives and interpreting actions.  Indeed, I have enough of my own to wonder about.  Oh, the burdens some will carry just to be permitted to spill a little suspicion at the feet of those who in turn beg to share the load, never recognizing in time that this weight only gains in intensity and volume, rather than becoming lighter when emptied of its contents into the open seas of poisoned consciousness, which call for aid from helpless victims who have taken in more than a single mind can hold without bursting apart, displaying a cluttered heap of refuse, impossible for any healthy man to digest without further injury to himself and all within range of hearing.

Rick Deering

 

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