We Who Are Your Closest Friends

your dearest companions

feel the time

has come to let you know

that each Thursday

we have been meeting

as a gathering

to devise ways

to keep you

in interminable vulnerability

dissatisfaction

discontent and

torment

by neither adoring you

as much as you need

nor cutting you unfastened

your investigator is

in on it

in addition your beau

what's more, your ex

what's more, we have promised

to baffle you

for whatever length of time that you need us

in reporting our

affiliation

we understand we have

set in your grasp

a conceivable counteractant

against vulnerability

in reality against ourselves

in any case, since our Thursday evenings

have brought us

to a network of direction

uncommon in itself

with you as

the regular focus

we feel confident you

will keep on making

absurd

requests for friendship

if not as an outcome

of your

terrible character

at that point for the benefit of the system