Exactness
Lawrence S. Pertillar 1947 (Connecticut)
Exactness and the use of facts?
Detailed and delivered,
With a doing to produce...
The evidence of truth?
Air tight!
Not even an expert teller of lies,
Could hypnotize...
Those squeezing their eyes,
Attempting to try...
Believing themselves,
Molecules probed under microscope.
Assigned to undo truth to delude,
Its origin and revealed existence.
Is and ultimately can be,
More painful than a tooth extracted.
And pulled from one's mouth,
Speaking truth to come out.
Without novocaine to stop the pain.
Especially these days,
When more people are willing to pay...
Any price it takes,
To stay as deluded as possible.
Fearing the threat,
Of the presence truth.
Heard to hear rumored or not,
Will destroy their sandcastles built...
During high tide on a wet beach.
But warned and told,
Motes dug to dig...
Around their castles to build them.
Will not prevent,
The destruction that comes!
People only want to hear,
What 'they' want to hear and that's it.
With no ifs-ands-or told you so's!
'When are you going to stop,
Exaggerating the truth and reality of it?
People are not that stupid.'
'Hmmm...
That is one thing,
I have yet learn to do!'
'And what is that?'
'Express my observations.
Without being cynical or sarcastic.'
'I said...
Exaggerate.'
'I heard you.
You have your observations.
And I have mine.
And like I said,
I have yet to learn to express,
My cynical and sarcastic point of view...
Better than I do.
But I am learning all the time to improve!'
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Submitted by lpahtillah on January 09, 2022
Modified by lpahtillah on January 09, 2022
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Stanzas | 9 |
Stanza Lengths | 13, 9, 13, 3, 3, 1, 2, 2, 8 |
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