Small Talk by Vicky Allison

When you ask how I am do you really give a shit?
I say, "I'm okay" because I can't be arsed to go into it

It'd be too much bother to have to listen to me,
And process that other people have problems but you

I've listened, really listened to yours so intently
Wracking my brain to help you know what to do

What thanks do I get - a "Yeah, maybe?" -
Even in normal conversations you've really go no clue

So absorbed in your own life, wrapped up in ANOTHER drama,
When I'm talking, I can see in your face,

You've already thought what you'll say next
That’s because I can see the cogs turning in your brain of what else you've got to tell me,

As I thought I was telling you my latest thing or news or scheme
Your eyes are lit up, lips all poised, voice at the ready

To jump in on my next pause or break or full stop,
To white wash all over what I've just said, prove that you've not heard a thing,

And go on and tell me more you-related trivia.
I care or cared, I really did. I'm not attention seeking

Only want to be heard and my listening reciprocated.
But its not, so I take measures, harsh as they be.

They say if you can't beat ‘em join ‘em, and with you that’s exactly what I've done.
For my own sake, I'm numb enough.

So I've shut off. That’s it.
I do care if your need is that great, I'll never completely not care.

But the "small talk" (if the quality was enough to even call it that)
Is bruising to me, so why even open my mouth?

“How Many Times Have you wondered When The Real Change Is Going To Happen in Your Life?”

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What makes a bad guy?

I mean everyone, real life or fiction, good guy or bad guy thinks they're doing the right thing for whatever reason.

Without villains, would we we need heroes? Yes I think.

Random House Unabridged Dictionary defines villain as "a cruelly malicious person who is involved in or devoted to wickedness or crime; scoundrel; or a character in a play, novel, or the like, who constitutes an important evil agency in the plot".

The word villain comes from old French, referring to a person who committed many unchivalrous acts, filtering through to the modern meaning of the word.

via Photobucket"In the real world there are no villains. No one actually sets out to do evil. Fiction mirrors life. Or, more accurately, fiction serves as a lens to focus what we know of life and bring its realities into sharper, clearer understanding for us. There are no villains cackling  and rubbing their hands in glee as they contemplate their evil deeds. There are only people with problems, struggling to solve themI ." (Ben Bova)

'He may be driven by greed, neuroses, or the conviction that his cause is just, but he's driven by something not unlike the things that drive a hero." (David Lubar)

(*Darren Hayes - Waking The Monster)

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