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saintliness

Saintliness

 

Mother Teresa is a saint now

The woman who loved poverty and death

But what she did is a truth

Like the six million dead Jews

It has been hammered

Into our heads no need to argue

The truth is told by historians and some of them

Are sent to jail for the sake of truth

When a big lie has been established as veracity

Anyone who gainsay this

Is vilified shut out of the tame press and

Given no credit

Mother Teresa has reached sainthood and

Is in the best company of the untouchable just as

It is impossible to discuss the holocaust 's

Secular saintliness

The truth is what you make of it

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