When Words Hurt

He was a party animal,
she, a wallflower he plucked
from a garden
crawling with bookworms.
When she threw the book at him
for disturbing her peace,
he ended up reading it,
for the bump that
My In-Law is an Outlaw
had left on his frontal lobe
had made him forget himself.

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