The Gray Rock Method
For resisting manipulative people
Here is how it works
Imagine you are a rock
Words ripple over you
In a deep stream bed
Where you sleep to all
Insults, meanness, needling
What kind of rock is it
You want to ask
Godly granite for a monument
To your right resolve or
Shale shattering into
Layers like pages of a book
Instead of a gray rock
Could you be an iceberg
A dagger to the depths
Reaching into a sunless sea
Ready to take the Titanic
With a mighty crack
Where are you cut from
A quarry, a cavern, a cairn
In your inert heart where you
Become stone to stone
What you pretend to be
While the water talks
–Ticky Kennedy
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NOTE
Gray Rock is a technique for dealing with psychopathic, narcissistic or manipulative people who like to draw you into arguments and drama. The goal is to become as detached and non-reactive as possible by keeping conversations brief and superficial. Although very popular, the method has not been scientifically tested. Medical News Today
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Frederic Edwin Church, 1865
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