Caren Krutsinger Poet Free verse

She Thinks She Knows Me

This stranger thinks she knows me
We met a month ago
She is not a good listener; talks nonstop

She is making some wild statements now about me
Mostly generalizations about older women
I am in the next room rolling my eyes

No one in the teacher lounge validates her suspicions
I have worked with most of the others for five years
They do know me

She drones on about me, making weird assumptions
I am amused that she has not noticed their nonresponses. 
Not a listener or an observer I guess.

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Sigrid Ermine August 18, 2020 at 4:38 PM Good point, JCB. This is a snake, and they're underfoot! Totally great you can share the betrayal here. (PS is listening) Caren Krutsinger August 19, 2020 at 4:25 PM Thank you so much my friend. I appreciate it.

JC Brul August 18, 2020 at 3:59 PM She will not listen dear Caren, because the more she knows you the more she will get insecured. Caren Krutsinger August 19, 2020 at 4:25 PM That is true; and I have moved on to a different place of work, so now she will never know me at all. Sigh.