poem,poetry,truth,humanity, irrational, lies

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time travel back
to ancient Athens
they made Socrates
drink hemlock
on the grounds
of corruption
lucky for us

the charge did not stick
we saw
through thst
slander, laughed
at that spin

not that we have
the capacity to do that today
when we revere our leaders
for the lies
that they tell us
buy into the fake narratives
as our matter of
life our death

refuse to believe anything
that is not illogical
and ittational
as testament to the devotion
with which
we contrive our decline

time travel back to Ancient Athens
like an alien planet now
so distant in
space and time