It’s Quadrille Monday over at the dVerse Poets Pub. The writing prompt is the word, cheer.
“Cheer up!” They tell me.
“Be grateful for the good things in life!”
They’ll never understand.
Without you, things are just things:
diamonds are no different than plastic;
filet mignon may as well be salami.
But you!
You’re what makes the good things,
good.
Ergo, the Ogre 
Tell it like it is