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Politice Rectam


Married to correctness,

divorced from the ideal

 

The truth becomes enigma,

veracity to steal

 

Facts bury in self interest,

the cheaters run and hide

 

All trysts a fated exercise

—philandering with lies

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: September, 2016)

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