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based on “Les Demoiselles d'Avignon” Picasso, 1907, and Fox News
Gossip twists the truth, distorts the facts
into unrecognizable shapes
into five Picasso women in Avignon.
If a person says enough lies, exactly the same,
all the time, too many people
accept it as truth. But a lie is still a lie.
And like the distorted women, brutalized
beyond recognition, gossip is
an art form that changes what was.
Ruins are still ruins. The person destroyed
must shift through the rubble of their lives.
Somewhere, underneath, smolders the truth.
Martin Willitts Jr has been nominated for 6 Pushcart and 6 Best Of The Net awards. He has 5 full-length and 20 chapbooks of poetry, including the 2013 national contest winner, Searching For What Is Not There (Hiraeth Press). He has been in The New Verse News before.