betteroffbad | allegorical song of envy in a publishing context

envy's the besetting sin
of poets who have one foot in
the litosphere and one outside
neurosis is the whelp of pride

one day when feeling allegorical
borne on envy like a coracle
feeling criticism's spurnity
I forgot all my modernity

envy turned into a guy
and made seductive to my eye
invited me to new york parties
full of tight-jeaned scarf-draped smarties

all around me envy fluttered
chitterchattered and tut-tuttered
as to pals he introduced me
alone into the room he loosed me

there I stood my heart in some distress
all alone and feeling underdressed
as those hipsters sipping ices
shifted into full-on vices

Shame was there and Sloth and Vanity
Sweeping Judgements of Humanity
Picked his perfect teeth beside Aggres-
-sive Twittering and Snideness

things got weird and tired as hell of it
I decided not to tell of it
I felt my brain grow hot and forgey
so I walked out of the orgy

sat on a bench, commenced to scribble
verses in a vernal dribble
about something unrelated
leaving envy to the celebrated