Vicious Attacks in the Guise of Humor

By Elton Camp

“Where’s your sense of humor?  I was just joking.”

This comes from a man that I’d like to be choking

People who get a laugh at someone else’s expense

Makes me wish that either I, or they, were far hence

Because such teasing comes from family or “friend,”

The outraged victim is not supposed himself to defend

The truly clueless continue such foolish talk to relate

After being seriously warned, “That I don’t appreciate.”

Those comments that one’s appearance or traits ridicule

Really show that the speaker is mostly an ignorant mule

Personally, I have decided that I will not take it anymore

“Don’t talk to me like that, you idiot. I’ve told you before.”