Indubitably, whether said in jest or earnest
is as painful to hear as jest or earnest.
In combination it has the impetus to ruin careers and alienate coworkers,
which is redundant, but I digress.
Which places me in the endless circle of the trinity or dialectics,
or even the pencil side of a pointy compass,
which once went whistling past my cheek,
not in nonchalance, but under the rubric of a viper,
crazed predator. Thankfully, I escaped that one.
