Lying Truth
Facts injected with conjecture and foregone conclusions,
Cast Truth aside in pursuit of knee jerked solutions.
Lost in a sea of deception,
Specious goals are massaged by lying hands,
Replacing Honesty with Truth’s ugly step sister,
The Half Truth.
The Midway Squawkers and Snake Oil Salesmen
Insist and demand the Half Truth into our lives
Hoping their deception lasts long enough
For them to cash in their nickels and dimes.
Assaulted long enough,
We allow recent lies to become our New Truth.
Delusion casts itself in stone
Brain dead populations dance around it
Happy as if they had brains.
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I first wrote this as a Flash fiction 100 word composition quite awhile ago. I have now converted it into a poem with some minor changes. It is no longer 100 words, it is now 99 words.
I thought given the current political moods clashing and thrashing worse than ever, re-posting it here and now might just impart how I feel regarding the current crop of leaders and their lackeys.
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So I had no problem locating an appropriate tune for this post.
"Lyin Eyes" by the Eagles will do just fine.
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