Concerning the Matter of the Disowning, However Imagined

Eggshells are things better spared

Than to have my weight imposed upon them

Not unlike that time

My presence was demand-requested into the debriefing on a near 

     tragedy

Concerning which I was quite pleased to have been present and helpful to the only real suffering individual concerned

     As far as I was concerned

Until I had to sit through the 

                              HISTRIONICS 

                      of the affected cohort group

     who

     while 

I have no doubt 

     sad for their anguished companion

Were probably a little more sad not to have been present

And to not have the opportunity to have really joined with her in her suffering

An uncomfortable realization:

     I had been present

          For all that glorious anguish

     I got to see the empty package of generic pain-reliever

          the drained liquor bottle

     I got to call the ambulance for Christ sake

And now I was the only one request-demanded to the debriefing

Because I was witness

     The first-hand conduit

          of all that suffering

For this beleaguered group

I was to be the Fluffer of their Shared Anguish

And I suppose I gave it to them

  Good

I was recently unfriended on Facebook

by the fellow who demand-requested that I be there

All he indicated was

Something about my cover photo 

     which depicts an angry self-absorbed man

     dressed ironically as a sad clown

He really seemed to take it personally