IF THEY SAY

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Chess, conflict, hypocrisy, meaning, poem, poetry, Truth

IF THEY SAY

If they
say they are
they aren’t

if they say
they did
they didn’t

you thought it
was exposition
but it was
outright
fiction

subtext, manouvre,
a play that leads
to discovered check

you thinking the game
in your total grasp

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OVERLOOKED

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Beauty, hypocrisy, poem, poetry, Reader, satire, Truth

OVERLOOKED

poetry is wank
poetry is hypocrisy

godlike poet
think he got a
direct connection

conduit to
pour his truth down
pipeline
into your heart

think it
Heaven

think it
golden

think it 100% free of
sugar substitute
think it
entirely devoid
of narcissism

think it speaking to
your soul like
a wind chimes, like

something soft and ephemeral
yet needing a great apologia

big, heavy words
to rally to its defence

yep, poetry not
everything it
cut out to be

and the
beauty you thought the world
had to had, had to
be brought to believe

so far
unwritten

or somewhere
we all just
overlooked

FAKE

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fake, falsehood, poem, poetry, Truth

FAKE

this poem
is fake

for purpose
unfit

misses
all the benchmarks

if mirror
it must hold up

that mirror
is cracked

shards, splinters
glittering in the street

look at your reflection
in those fragments
know this
no text
message
no
selfie straight
from photoshop

this the distorted image
that speaks itself

ancient,
long-dead art

TRUE TRUE

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ironical, irony, poem, poetry, satire, Truth

TRUE TRUE

The Truth
will set you
free

eventually
but before that
it is going You
mercilessly

kick
the shit out of you
on the way down.

READING CHANTAL MOUFFE

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discourse, philosophy, poetry, post-structuralist, postmodern Chantal Mouffe, satire, Sexual, Truth

READING
CHANTAL
MOUFFE

love is
never the
answer

for what
would be
the question?

to question is to
invite
conundrum, problem
deconstruction, negation,

stuff that you are reading
in this book edited
by Chantal Mouffe

under the covers
your

body naked

for me
that says enough
about love’s truth

‘STRUE BRU

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poem, poetry, South African, Truth

‘STRUE BRU*

poetry always
allows me
to be
true
to myself

by which I mean
my other self

the poet that
uses me
like his
ventriloquist’s dummy

‘strue bru: South African slang meaning “I kid you not” (It’s true brother)

MIRROR MIRROR

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poem, poetry, power

MIRROR MIRROR

fake news
is the news

behind the mirror
which is
why we
need more
mirror

mirrors mirroring
mirrors and

then nothing can be
mirrored that is not
mirroring itself

SPEAKING OF CORE TRUTH

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poem, poetry, sexual symbolism

SPEAKING OF CORE TRUTH

slowly work your way
into my centre

use, choose your
own verb if
you like

as you nibble, probe, feel
your way
know

that I’m
not all light, not
all darkness

but hands like yours, with
long, slim elegant fingers

deserve to
find a jewel

and (as the new physics tells us)
hoping to, expecting to strike crystal
at my core

can only mean
you will be so amply, beautifully rewarded

TRUTH LIGHT

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poem, poetry, satire

TRUTH LIGHT
(ON THE BOIL)

It’s all
truth light

no truth
deep

or truth
dark

no truth master brewed
that (more than
just a grain)

rises from the ground to
satisfy richly, green
as John Barleycorn

Oh we
sup our ale, and before
that our mead, longing
for truth that is not
a concoction

need not
be distilled

(though there on the stove
boiling away

Mr Frankie Boyle

strong as a
steam train, his cruel
carefree truth

finding its mark
having
its
wicked way

WHAT WE ARE

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poem, poetry

WHAT WE ARE

we are what we are by conquest
that’s God’s (our God’s) awful truth
the love
hatred we feel
scripted by
history
taught
from birth

Oh, but
too fast you
write, you speak
my friend

the hate
but not
the love

this our
saving
gracious truth