Asinine phrases spill out

My speech banal and my audience bored

All of the attention and glamor I fail to hoard

“Does anyone care what I have to say?”

Yet they had listened with attentive ears

When a fellow partygoer had to interject

Saying I had a detail incorrect, no disrespect

“Doesn’t anyone believe me!”

My articulation had stayed its welcome

And yet kept spilling out at full blast

It seemed time to pull my head from my ass

Why don’t I listen to anyone?

Introspection is good, ego a bit worse

But I must get out of my own head

And listen to others’ adventures they lead

How do I show that I’m attentively listening?