Scapeghost

I am tempted to change my last name

To Diddit.

“Who’s responsible for this?” “Gary Diddit.”

That’s the perception anyway.

I have been Ghosted.

The trouble is, I understand.

Years back I found a relative so toxic

That I did my best to exclude him

From my universe.

I was civil on those occasions

When we were in the same room together

But I had felt sufficiently betrayed

That my idea of the ideal interaction level

Was Zero.

Gradually I realized that avoiding him

Was giving him too much power over me

And that my passive-aggressive ghosting

Was also toxic.

But they who ghost me

Have their reasons.

Who’s compared #47 to Hitler–unfavorably?

Gary Diddit.

Who keeps arguing

After the horse is so dead

It has begun to decompose?

Gary Diddit.

Who let his addiction

Interfere with his relationships

Time and time again?

Gary Bowers, that’s who.