A Formidable Enemy

an enemy who has stuck with you since the day you met them is a commendable one, for it is they that have stayed constant & strong when others have come & gone it is them that have paid attention, read all your work, seen all your films, observed all your paintings, heard everything that came out of your mouth (and thought long & hard about it), laboriously monitored all your actions & dreamt up new & interesting ways to **** you over, all day, every day, spiraling out into infinity & that, that is something that you just can’t buy, you can’t sell on ebay & you sure as hell wouldn’t give up for a week in the bahamas or a winter lodge in aspen. a formidable enemy is more like you than you realize, because they understand exactly where you are & at the crossroads, choose to go left, instead of right or right when you go left--- either way, they may use every itty bit of the hate that they can muster in their arsenal to do their best to destroy you, or they might just dream of your death in a lingering manner while playing with their sautéed vegetables while out to dinner with their main squeeze. most of all, this enemy, of which you have the greatest admiration, will ultimately outlive you (be it physically, or having passed on their hatred of you to others who now have come to hate you as well, having studied under this genius), and for that, you are eternally indebted to them, because it is the enemy, so strong & so determined to stop you, which provokes you & forces you to use your built up reservoir of anger in the most efficacious way possible.