AT ALL COSTS

AT ALL COSTS

When your whole narrative
is a lie

whole thing, all
three acts,
start to finish

you have to defend it
at all costs

dig in, buld ramparts,
lay mines
they shalt not pass

take no
prisoners, no surrender,

you have no idea
as to what a terrible, unforgiving,
merciless enemy

the truth can be.

COPERNICAN SYSTEM REVISITED

COPERNICAN SYSTEM REVISITED

tellers of tales
doctors of spin

can get smothered
strangled in
all that
      yarn

this
how the world demands
we do not
turn
          eschew
revolution

history freeze
take
   everything as it
comes, it falls

without (us) and
out of the blue, within