3 Card Monte

Gather your false prophets
and sycophants
 Bury your heads
in the deepest sand

Tell the same lies
 as you sing to the choir
 Slave to the mirror
—and sleight of hand

(Dreamsleep: May, 2023)
Copyright © | Year Posted 2023

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