Caren Krutsinger Poet Free verse

Never Joke With a Person Who Doesn'T Know How

I never give advice, but I’m telling you now,
Never joke with a person who doesn’t know how….

It’ll backfire in ways you cannot even imagine to venture a guess.
Shocking you unexpectedly with unnecessary and nasty cheerlessness.

“She’s lying,” they’ll spit, sputter, slander, slather, and say,
Because they have no knowledge of any kind of play.

Matter of fact, let us leave these people out of our heads, hearts, and homes.
Best of all to block them from your relatives, friends, and brand new I-phone.

Because the negativity they bring to your life may enter your soul.
Upon which time you might lose sight of your dreams, aspirations, and big goal.

I am not being heartless, because everyone knows, this is what they’ll do.
They’ll gravitate to more of their kind, angry people who want to be blue.

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Old Buck March 13, 2018 at 10:56 AM Caren: I've not enjoyed a piece so much as this for some time. Thank you for sharing with all of us on the soup. Keep them coming. Your pen must be smokin'. oldbuck Caren Krutsinger March 15, 2018 at 7:18 AM I have to write in between classes I teach, so I'm doing the best I can. It's so easy on this site to have FUN!

Line Gauthier February 28, 2018 at 11:32 PM Awesome advice (even though it's coming from someone who doesn't want to give it LOL)... Love your poem, Caren. Caren Krutsinger March 1, 2018 at 2:08 AM Thanks Line. I have actually been trained to NOT give advice, since I'm a counselor, but alas, advice keeps popping through me.

Reason A. Poteet February 28, 2018 at 2:56 PM One thing you have made clear and with a good point, avoidance is perhaps the best path. And yet there is another side, thinking of why they may refuse to engage in whimsy and humor? Stay away from them whenever possible but they are to be pitied and treated with gentleness and composure when you must be in their presence. Perhaps they carry burdens which we may not recognize. Caren Krutsinger March 1, 2018 at 2:09 AM Now I see why your name is Reason, it could also be Clarity and Truth; well-said.

Jan Allison February 28, 2018 at 12:39 PM Wise words indeed care and these folks do have a way of dragging you down too:-( hugs Jan xx Caren Krutsinger February 28, 2018 at 12:59 PM Thanks Jan.

Gershon Wolf February 28, 2018 at 12:11 PM Wow, Caren: This one pierced me to the root. You are so right!! I actually married a girl 41 years ago who couldn't joke at all---and 13 miserable years ensued. Your lines read like the story of that marriage/divorce. Wonderful write! Bravo! :) Gershon (P.S., I remarried to a lady with a sense of humor 22 years ago: Relatively smooth sailing from there...) Caren Krutsinger February 28, 2018 at 12:15 PM I am proud of you Gershon; it is not easy to let go of these kinds of attachments. I know, believe me! I have had to let go of a whole bunch of people!