Humpty Dumpty

i was peeling the eggs,

hard-boiled they were -

and hard-talking, too...

they laughed at me, saying,

"we had to get away from you"

they snickered, whispering.

"we don't love you"

they cried out,

"leave us alone"

they whined endlessly - so,

i smashed them

silencing their plaintive cries

as i threw their skins away -

laughing as i chopped them to bits

remembering the high-pitched cries of

the fly caught in the spider web

"help me...help me."

i hated that fucking fly

like i hated those eggs

but i hated me most of all

for allowing them

to turn me

into humpty dumpty.