When you hear hurtful words, they may be true,
in which case you might heed and thereby learn,
or else they’re not and thus your point of view
can shift, indicting speaker. You can turn
away then from the fool insulting you,
and let that careless blurting speaker churn
alone in sinks of verbal paucity,
except you’d rather like her, if you’re me.

(Ottava Rima)