remember how

surreptitiously stealing food from my mind

you know the kind

looking straight into your eyes

while complimenting you with lies

and then they take your vote

with their smile, tie and coat

the graffitiness of their prose

who knows

the ends

or what the message sends

whatever the spiel

we are able to now reveal

that here ceases the deceit

from those who we never meet

politic will not

however begot

ever truth for life sustain

or write permanent my brain

remember how it ran

before partisan began

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