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Despicable!

That label was custom-made for you

long before you were born.

 

Someone

in the distant mists

of time beyond recall

innately knew

that, far in the future,

and unburdened by conscience,

you would come along

And, in order to provide the world

with a way to describe you–

your nature, and the misery you would bring to so many–

in your time,

the word “despicable”

was set loose on the wind

and in the world

to disseminate, procreate and then wait,

like a virus, in the shadows,

for that unhappy day

when you would ultimately hatch.

 

Other words–

Odious, vile, ignoble,

contemptible, reprehensible,

hateful, loathsome–

these, and more of like inclination

fail to convey the awfulness

of “despicable;”

They describe aspects

of your behavior,

your persona,

but none capture your essence

in total

with the succinctness

and elegance

of your personal descriptor.

 

As in Sanskrit, where a word

not only describes its subject

but also resonates at its same frequency

making both synonymous

with each other,

the word “despicable”

is synonymous with you;

All other similar adjectives

are mere descriptors.

 

The day you were spawned

was the day the Word awakened

to its true potential,

the day it took on special significance,

assumed its role as a Personal Adjective

and began honing its nuance, laser like,

so that any minor discrepancies,

misapprehensions, misunderstandings,

between the Word’s meaning

and its subject’s thoughts, reasons, deeds

were resolved beyond question.

 

Whether you were shaped, molded, by the Word

as you metastasized

or, instead,

you labored from the outset

to live up to your description,

to become worthy of it,

(narcissist that you are),

your hostile takeover of the world

was encoded into your genetic makeup

eons before your infection was allowed

to escape.

 

But alas!

There are some things

for which the Center for Disease Control

not to mention recorded history

have no answers.

 

. . . Well, history speaks of one

but not one to which I subscribe

And besides, that’s only

a short-term solution

to a problem as old as the ages.

 

4 February 2016

Tim Konrad