The Romantic’s Survival Guide

Welcome to the age of asperity! 

Watch your tongue and shun sincerity

For you ought to be warned that the natives here

Are especially apt to snark and sneer.

Don’t rouse their vicious hostility

And indulge in romantic temerity

For your heart they will cut, and your soul they will sear

As they skillfully skew’r and gleefully jeer;

So veil yourself in obscurity

To stay safe and avoid their barbarity.

- Erika, a friend from the Notion Club

Love this poem and thought a few of my readers could identify ;)