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Wednesday, November 09, 2016

VERITAS VANISHED

by Bob McNeil

Source: Politifact

Aphorists say that

The truth is old—
Bristlecone-pine-tree-old,

And the truth is cold—
Cadaver-in-the-arctic-cold.

Granted, the truth is a lot of things,
But it’s the thing
That’s not being told.

I believe
The truth is a stranger
That’s about as foreign as an extraterrestrial.
It will never land on the lips of politicians.

That’s the truth.


Tenaciously, Bob McNeil tries to compose poetic stun guns and Tasers, weapons for the downtrodden in their effort to trounce oppression.  His poems want to be fortresses against despotic politics.