Word Around Town

"When you are in trouble, people who call to sympathize are really looking for the particulars." ~Edgar Watson Howe

I never really trusted the word around town
Because if its heard around town
From a little bird around town
It’s likely the information isn’t sound.
And that’s hard to tell because word travels so fast
So and so is this and
So and so is that
Putting all their business on blast.
It’s cool until it happens to you,
You pout for a day or two.
Vow to never succumb to the gossip
Because at the end of the day no one profits.
Just broken hearts and reputations,
“It’s no one’s business, when or with whom I had relations.”
But when the hurt fades,
And the jilt of your slandered name goes away,
Its back to the basics, like you never changed.
A wise man once said,
“What you don’t witness with your eyes,
Don’t witness with your mouth.”
But of course, that’s just the word around town.