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Etiquette Lessons

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Cultivate good manners
for your bad examples
If you don't want your peers
to point their fingers at you.
 
Dress your base instincts up
in sheep's clothing.
The cowl does not make the monk,
but it sure looks like it does.
 
In public, present yourself friendly,
attentive, considerate,
courteous, thoughtful, polite,
solicitous, accommodating.
 
And when you fuck up, do make sure
to adorn the blunder*
So that, admiringly, the world says
How prettily he fucks up!*
 
Have a smile on your face,
as you swing the whip.
Break the bad news to people,
but wrapped like a present.
 
Tell the world with a bouquet,
that you came to raze it down.
Sign death sentences,
but with spiffy handwriting.
 
Put God as your witness,
and lie creditably.
Make people fall in line,
but without raising your voice.
 
Because at first sight one cannot see
the rottenness of your guts.
Looks can be deceiving
to your own benefit.
 
Listen to me and start taking
lessons of etiquette.
 
Cultivate good manners
wherein you can hide your sins.
Embellish your work clothes with silk
and test the results.
 
Although you might be
- the scum of humanity-
A complete perfect bastard,
but with regal demeanor.
 
Insult with civility,
steal with sophistication,
murder cleanly
and swindle with class.
 
Slander, but without lacking decency,
betray with pizazz,
spray perfume on your foulness
with exquisite etiquette.
 


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