Stick Around Poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar

If I have offended you...
I do offer options.
You can choose to look at it this way...
Either I have had a lot of practice at it!
With those before you providing my experience.
Or...
You have gotten on my last nerve,
With such a degree of annoyance...
I had to offend,
To deliver the attention you sought!
Now...
Which is it?
If neither of those applies,
And this is your first time being insulted...
You and I could become good friends.
I do not often offend without a purpose.

Stick around!
You look as if,
I might have finally found the one...
Who will not put up with it!

'You're sick! '

Really?
Tell me more.
Don't stop.
I'm all ears.
You have my undivided attention!