The Instigator

“But I’m really a nice guy…”

Why is it those who so delight in petty provocation

Merely for idle pleasure and their own gratification

Are too smug to understand that their true motivation

Can’t always be disguised as seeking edification?

The discerning eye perceives the clear manifestation

Of Machiavellian intent; an unwitting revelation.

© 5/11/2004 Thurman P. Woodfork