Throw away
Boiled
Rendered
Skimmed
Strained
Squeezed through a cheese cloth
Scraped down the drain
The insult goes
or so I've been told
"the best part of you
ran down your mother's legs"
and got stuck in her pantyhose
Don't believe it
Don't buy it
Don't accept it
always defy it
The human lie
In fact
I'll proceed a step further
dangle a toe
over the edge
and say
Fuck em all
Fuck em all
the tall
the short
and the small
if they haven't got
anything good to say
Comatose heart
vaguely aware
but never quite
giving voice
Well
if in doubt
laugh
take the insult
as amusing anecdote
for there's nothing
wrong
with
you
And so I laughed
when the insults flew
I dodged the adage
"The fault lies with you"
Just smile
take it in context
twist the insult
into a pretzel
and chew
Insult me
but do so creatively
to do otherwise
insults butt you
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.........................................Being attacked by him is like being savaged by a dead sheep.
- - - Dennis Healy
He is simply a shiver looking for a spine to run up.
- - - Paul Keating
He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.
- - - Henry James
He was so narrow minded he could see through a keyhole with both eyes.
- - - Molly Ivins
She's got such a narrow mind, when she walks fast her earrings bang together.
- - - John Cantu
He was trying to save both his faces.
- - - John Gunther
In order to avoid being called a flirt, she always yielded easily.
- - - Charles, Count Talleyrand
She never lets ideas interrupt the easy flow of her conversation.
- - - Jean Webster
She plunged into a sea of platitudes, and with the powerful breast stroke of a channel swimmer, made her confident way towards the white cliffs of the obvious.
- - - W. Somerset Maugham
She proceeds to dip her little fountain-pen filler into pots of oily venom and to squirt the mixture at all her friends.
- - - Harold Nicholson
She's been on more laps than a napkin.
- - - Walter Winchell
She's the sort of woman who lives for others -- you can tell the others by their hunted expression.
- - - C. S. Lewis
Don't look now, but there's one too many in this room and I think it's you.
- - - Groucho Marx
Every time I look at you I get a fierce desire to be lonesome.
- - - Oscar Levant
From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.
- - - Groucho Marx
I could dance with you until the cows come home. On second thought I'd rather dance with the cows until you come home.
- - - Groucho Marx
I could never learn to like her, except on a raft at sea with no other provisions in sight.
- - - Mark Twain
I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.
- - - Mark Twain
I feel so miserable without you, it's almost like having you here.
- - - Stephen Bishop
The higher a monkey climbs, the more you see of its behind.
- - - Joseph Stilwell
I see her as one great stampede of lips directed at the nearest derriere.
- - - Noël Coward
