Unsociable Media

What goes around, even in fun, may come around.

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A crude joke had been started for fun

about what someone did to someone.

Nothing new. Naughty fluff,

but just funny enough.

With a cuss and a laugh, it seemed done …

But it wandered around several days,

and it grew as it changed in some ways,

Even funnier now,

although meaner, somehow,

and the language got worse in the haze.

I’ve recently heard it’s been said—

and I can’t get this out of my head—

that a rumor will grow

well beyond what we know.

I won’t say it. I’ll write it instead!

Now I’ve heard that they say it was said.

Since I wrote it, the story’s been read.

“Who did what? Was it true?

I don’t know, but now you

need to share it. The news Must be spread!”

A strange rumor just knocked on my door,

far more vicious than ever before,

I did this or did that,

something “friend,” something “cat,”

“He should die from a plague—that’s for sure!”

Oh they’re Hellish, the things that I’ve done!

Over time, they get worse, every one,

but I guess I’m to blame

for fomenting a game

that’s insatiable once it’s begun.

By Ken Gosse

From: United States

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