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A Smokescreen


Science…

 bastard child

of philosophy

and reason

formulaic delinquent

of an answer

in flux

Serving itself

as it shuns

its true

master

bowing down

to its 

tenets

the truth

—undiscussed

 

(Bryn Mawr Pennsylvania: April, 2021) 

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