What I said about you, Spanakopita Pete,
back when you weren’t listening
because you were not in the state,
was not cool.
I was wrong to speak that way
in your very distant absence
and I apologize.

I should have spoken quietly
or not at all, Spanakopita Pete,
and keeping my own counsel
would have been the wisest course of action.
If you don’t have anything nice to say,
don’t say something
that can possibly get back to the individual,
that’s what I always say.

I failed to follow that simple rule, SP,
and if it were to ever get back to you
that I called you Moussaka Paul,
I would be mortified.
Simply mortified.

So say it isn’t so, SD:
tell me you haven’t heard anything,
please.