The Last Straw
I hate having the mickey taken out of me.
I hate it.
I know I shouldn’t react to it,
But sometimes it’s hard not to.
People get right under my skin,
And I feel myself getting angry.
I always try and walk away from it,
Go somewhere else where I can have a bit of privacy
And simmer down.
But this time there was nowhere for me to go.
I couldn’t get out of that room fast enough,
I couldn’t get that stupid ignorant bastard out of my face.
All this fury came out of nowhere,
And all I could see was him,
And all I could think about was how much I wanted to hit him.
So I did.
I don’t remember how long I was punching and kicking him for,
But by the time they pulled me off,
He was rolling round on the floor in pain.
There was a lot of blood,
And some of his teeth had fallen out from where I’d kicked him in
the head.
I hadn’t meant to hurt him that badly.
I’d just wanted to knock him down,
To make him shut up,
To make him stop laughing at me.
But by the time I’d finished,
He didn’t have enough breath to laugh,
And the blood and broken teeth nearly choked him.
I did feel a bit bad about making such a mess of him,
But he deserved it,
And I knew he’d never take the piss out of me again.
He looked so frightened lying there on the floor.
He stared up at me,
His eyes wide with horror as if I was a monster.
But he was the monster.
He started it.
He shouldn’t have taken the mickey.
I hate it when people take the mickey out of me.
I hate it.
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