Crocodile Tears
if you were tied in a chair
like Alex in
A Clockwork Orange,
with your eyes pried permanently open
with a mechanism built to do just that &
you were forced to look out at the terrible things happening in the world &
you could not turn your head & look away
& you could not seek conversation with a loved one
or find distraction in any other way,
would you then cry an honest tear &
not a load of crocodile ones?
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