#back biter

Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys. (Joseph Conrad) WOW ~ Word of the Week ~ Back Biter https://wp.me/p35x4V-2w3 #Regency #vocabulary #gossip #art

In church we call them “parking lot committee members.” In social media we call them “tea spillers.” If you’re at work, people ask for the “scuttlebutt” or “dish.” No matter the label, someone who gossips, especially with the intent to hurt or defame, is an untrustworthy, chin-wagging scandalmonger that you’d better not turn your back on. Back Biter One who slanders another behind his back,…

Modern day talentless bard,

master of weaving the off pitch canard,

You think you know me,

You honestly believe you have me all figured out?

You can’t judge this book,

I didn’t bother to get a cover

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The pages of my life have scattered to the four winds

I took extra care so no one could find them all

what need have they to understand that which does not want to be understood?

The question lies…