absent tactic

I'm going to insult your intelligence, 
which is easy for me. I'll just tell you 
something obvious. Which you already 
knew; which anyone does. Because 

it's true. I will trust your intelligence 
to buck, to rear ugly head up ugly butt 
and to snort in the darkness, parading 
yourself like a dunce cap jammed down 
the head of an elf. 

For what a rank insult I must be. To tell 
you a truth, excitedly
that was news 
to me.