DEAD DOG

DEAD DOG

Truth is a
dead dog

let it rot, let
it putrefact
let it smell
let
   it stink

don’t let them bury it
hide or celebrate
the fact
     it is dead
with their complicity
by their agency

don’t let them cover
it will concrete or
a brass plaque
build a mausoleum
a cenotaph
   the mother
of all monuments

give speeches in its
praise, celebrate its
former life

for if truth is dead
there are no lies
no duplicity
       no hypocrisy.

so
    dead or not let
them not

                    bury truth

let it lie where they slew it
let it stink.