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Date Posted: 23:50:09 03/09/06 Thu
Author: Wayne Adams
Subject: Re: Coax
In reply to: Tirzah Conlon 's message, "Coax" on 23:12:03 03/09/06 Thu

>I coaxed promises from a liar's mouth
>an empty gray cave, echoing with death
>truth, lay like a corpse, uttering no sound
>only time's white shroud, cloaking what was said
>I heard fools concoct, a glorious feast
>celebrating the wicked to be crowned
>mouths dripped hungry, for the ego's sweet meat
>a plate, to savor and highly renown
>Voices echoed, in a cavernous roar
>for a lie is an insatiable beast
>dead screamed in agony, begging for more
>all empty, they were unable to eat
>I coaxed a lie into my only mouth
>finally, in silence, I let it out


I think you are saying that a lie is the murderor of truth.
Is that right? The scene you describe in your poem sounds like a wasteland as far as the truth is concerned.

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