May 2018
I'M BECOMING INGRID BERGMAN
Ok! I'll be the first
to admit
you tell a better lie
than I can tell the honest truth.
You, become the little boy
an expert in the art of the lie.
Even my best friends
believe you more than
they
do me!
Being economical with the truth
is alas your forte.
Oh you tell the truth
but it's versions of...rather than
the real McCoy
you lie enough to make me cry.
Pick a number
between 1 and 10.
Anyone of them
could be the real honest to goodness
dyed in the wool
lie
little white lie
non-truth
half-truth
truth that's not
the whole truth.
So help me God!
You're good...so so good at
the lie, the whole lie
and nothing but
the lie.
Even I( at times )
begin to doubt myself
but then you tell a lie
that contradicts the last lie.
Then you say you never
said what you have said
denying the existence
of the words
I have only just
heard.
Fiction/faction
the truth yes but...only a fraction.
Enough told
to let the lie take hold.
To tell the truth
I
feel I am becoming
Ingrid Bergman
going out of her mind
in 1944's GASLIGHT.
You a so
convincing Charles Boyer.
No word of a lie
I've become
Ingrid Bergman.
Ok! I'll be the first
to admit
you tell a better lie
than I can tell the honest truth.
You, become the little boy
an expert in the art of the lie.
Even my best friends
believe you more than
they
do me!
Being economical with the truth
is alas your forte.
Oh you tell the truth
but it's versions of...rather than
the real McCoy
you lie enough to make me cry.
Pick a number
between 1 and 10.
Anyone of them
could be the real honest to goodness
dyed in the wool
lie
little white lie
non-truth
half-truth
truth that's not
the whole truth.
So help me God!
You're good...so so good at
the lie, the whole lie
and nothing but
the lie.
Even I( at times )
begin to doubt myself
but then you tell a lie
that contradicts the last lie.
Then you say you never
said what you have said
denying the existence
of the words
I have only just
heard.
Fiction/faction
the truth yes but...only a fraction.
Enough told
to let the lie take hold.
To tell the truth
I
feel I am becoming
Ingrid Bergman
going out of her mind
in 1944's GASLIGHT.
You a so
convincing Charles Boyer.
No word of a lie
I've become
Ingrid Bergman.
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Gaslight is an American 1944 mystery-thriller film, adapted from Patrick Hamilton's 1938 play Gas Light, about a woman whose husband slowly manipulates her into believing that she is going insane. Gregory does everything in his power to convince his wife that she is going mad, hoping to have her certified as insane and then institutionalised.
The gaslights dim and brighten for no apparent reason. Gregory suggests that these are all figments of Paula's imagination.
Gaslight is an American 1944 mystery-thriller film, adapted from Patrick Hamilton's 1938 play Gas Light, about a woman whose husband slowly manipulates her into believing that she is going insane. Gregory does everything in his power to convince his wife that she is going mad, hoping to have her certified as insane and then institutionalised.
The gaslights dim and brighten for no apparent reason. Gregory suggests that these are all figments of Paula's imagination.
