He Expected the Worst In Everyone

He had a perpetual angry sneer A lip that curled and an attitude that said Back off Expressed dissatisfaction with you before you reached his eye level you could feel his disgust He expected the worst in everyone Substandard treatment, racism, sexism, and all the other isms He had been taught by the best that the world is horrible and people are con-artists it served him well in his quest to live down to the failure his mother always said he would be His grandmother tried to build him up and love him, but she died when he was a mere babe So he lived down the the expectations of a mother who had always expected the worst, seeing racism and sexism in everyone Until she was old, then she say ageism and spoke to him in even worst ways treating him like the dog she had always told him he was It was despicable to see. His angels were horrified But they could not undo the damage of a sad and angry mother who never wanted a child in the first place.