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Enemy of Delusion
Small talk is a dishonest
and barely varnished lie
I walk in and demolish
the scarcely garnished try
and then I’m the bad guy
defend my unclad
psychotic truth,
my ironic pursuit
of uncouth certainties
but you’re hurting me
by not paying fair
and laying bare
when we both see
inequities
and then you say
you don’t see our color
with respect to political cover,
correctness when I reflect
on your blindness
I’d rather you select
Kindness
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Written for imaginary garden with real toads FASHION ME YOUR WORDS TO FOLD ~ Ergo, imagined By Gillena Cox . We were challenged to write based on our discovery of ourselves in a Peanuts comic, or a comic strip of our choice. Obviously, I chose the young black revolutionary, Huey Freeman, because of couse I did. 🙂
Hephaestus’ Waste & Cosmic Rubble 
Wonderful!
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Thank you! 🙂
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Are we ever able to communicate?
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I ask myself this quite a bit. I guess both parties have to listen to try to understand instead of just listening for their turn to talk again. Thanks for reading.
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Wow, I was unacquainted with Huey before, but now I’m in love with him.
And kindness is surely always the best thing to select.
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Thanks Rosemary. I’m happy to introduce him to you!
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Truth is such a pain in the ass sword to have to carry about. We cut ourselves as much as the world getting to what counts. What freedom there is in slashing with abandon, what difficulty in restraint of pen and tongue! And with a sword so heavy with irony … Well. I look forward to reading how the craft of this evolves. Forge and hammer the words well!
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Thank you for the wonderful comment!
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Don’t mess with my delusions. Ha, “the truth is out there… and it hurts” I’m finding this out in my own life but it is also freeing.
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Thanks for reading and commenting. And I agree; some truths about my own life do sting a bit, but they are also liberating.
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Interesting how both truth and lie must be couched in terms. I find the pessimism of the protagonist in the cartoon very cute, better to see the dark side than hope. Right?
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Thank you, and I agree.
But then again, I often confuse pessimism with realism…
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Yes, kindness. Kindness and love only; will break the barriers. I enjoyed all the rhyming – something I am not much good at doing.
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man, Barry, i just had that convo of realism v pessimism – and where hope fits, too.
the voice you present in this is vivid, strong – direct and unflinching. ~
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