There's No Reason To Be Nice And Good

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                     There's No Reason To Be Nice And Good
                                                                     for Sarah Ewald

I'm bad
because the orgasm of the world is death,
and I want to be good.

No vicious envy curtails my pride,
I don't use faggoty words like 'curtail';
only a master reader could be as slavish as that.
What was that someone said about indifference to your hearers.

No, 
I don't even ask a question
but tell you of, in one off effort:

the secret of the curling hair,
the softness of persistent stress.

They don't make too many good things anymore,
it's so easy and so much better to be bad,
they make just enough.