Hypocrisy                                                          


            I used to think it was
            Hypocrisy
            For somebody I knew to be a
            Bastard through and through
            To croon of sweetness
            And the like
 
            Until I recognised
            The carcass of a better self
            That had been dumped
            But couldn’t be kept down
 
            Silly me
            To have relied upon my ear
            More than my nose


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            Emanuel E. García, Sinking In, One Hundred Poems2013

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