POETRY

The Post-truth World

December 3, 2016

in our search for truth
we found we could not

manage it

and so we handed in
 
our passports and
 
entered the post-truth world
where we could feel
safe inside our own
opinions and the 
superstitions
fed to us by charlatan
preachers and politicians
who were willing to sell our souls
along with their own
so that they could hang 
around the halls of power.

the market for souls is
lucrative and rewarding

and we are bringing
 
a good return for

those willing to trade

us for their post-truth

moments of power

and ecstacy

and the only way to
 
take ourselves off
 
the selling block

is to turn around

and step out of the the post-truth

world and demand
 
the return of those passports.

 

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