Kindness

(A dramatic Monologue)

Be kind? To which age do you belong?

Kindness begets wallops, contempt and ridicule.

Kindness is the stock of the stupid; those that would be suckers.

When you tell me, ‘You are kind’, I feel as though I am an ass.

Men could feel good with that description when women were not men.

You, my dear Sir, have been in the army, living away from life,

I mean life in the civilian sense. You are fortunate that you stayed away.

You have not lived at home to see others promoted over you.

I have seen that happen as I am no soldier at the country’s frontiers,

I have experienced a kind of cuckoldom in which her mind was

Colonized by others, one after another. While I looked after the shop,

She found reasons for why I was not good enough for her attention.

I cannot be kind to one who has sucked out every drop of hope, every

Reason to look forward with any chance of Fortune smiling over me.