i have a new lie for you
it will pass through you
without comment and hurtle out from the hot core
taking your heart with it
let us begin the tired paradox of ending and birth
i have a new lie for you and it will kill you where you
stand and you will go on
i have a new lie for you and it will press your body onto
the pavement until there is a little pool of humanity that
will splash the front pages briefly
i have a new lie for you
and i know you will leap from your window at one chance to grasp
macbeth’s knife or the sacred heart or the buddha’s unraveled
belly swinging like tarzan on a new jihad
i have a new lie for you
infinite capacity to believe makes us divine
but why only one truth at a time?
i have an old lie for you
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-dennis landi © 1988;
