If you truck with gossips

it’s no toss-up how that ends

soon it’s you

to be the who

is topic to his friends

>vivisecting<

choice selections

told to him in private

skewed to

)fit)

the worldview

of chatty autopilot

it’s just a fact

that talking smack

will set a karmic table,

the dirt you dish

presents the risk

of starring in that fable.

©Karen Robiscoe