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Prevaricator


Let’s cut right through

the bombast ...

your camouflage of words

And redefine

the essence ...

of what you’ve never learned

Your double-talk

pontificates ...

to lure and to distract

Whose lies deride

wherein you hide ...

 from what the truth exacts

 

(The New Room: February, 2025)

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Kurt Philip Behm

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