Self-sufficiency Is Key

In a pinch, you cannot rely on friends,

Pseudo-friends, ex-friends, non-friends, the lot!

For within each human lurks a foe,

A contemptuous b*****d that craves release,

And the comeliest capstone of niceness and courtesy

Will not suppress it forever.

Even less savory: adults knocked back

Into infancy, mewling and clenching their fists,

Confined to their cribs--helpless, self-pitying--

Who cocoon like grubs, yet never will earn

Their motley moth wings.

No, you cannot depend on anyone . . .

Live independently, or despair.