'Self-Defeating Behavior To Self-Destructive Choice Poem by Margaret Alice

I love buying fairies, but they seldom
wear glitter enough, tonight I added
silver glitter in glue, even my porcelain
figure got some glitter too –

Tomorrow I’ll do the stones I picked up
in the Karoo with glitter in gold, adding
shine to my life, fighting the idiotic
practice of watching

Depressing stuff on TV, experiencing the
tragedy lived by the characters in the story,
though it is quite clear they do it to
themselves, moving from

Self-defeating behavior to self-destructive
choice, making it obvious the scriptwriters
were told to force the audience to tears,
wasting the nervous system

On false feelings and sham emotions,
wearing out life’s energy in negative
experience instead of creating positive
ideas; at least teaching

The audience negative events result from
stupid choices; even a child can see the
silly characters were forced into making
the worst choice in order to

Illustrate how to create a sad scenario – not
a single bad event happened without the
character carefully orchestrating the heart-
breaking affair, since

Tear-jerkers are popular – at least I hope
people learn how they themselves dig
the holes they keep falling into…