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Tyranny with Manners

Ambiguous propaganda seeps paranoia

into crevasses of budding knowledge,

spawning hordes of diffident souls

that cower behind the Aegis

of altruistic motives.

 

Self preservation clings

to pragmatic love

and delayed satisfaction,

while enthusiasts of law

leech gold from delicate

words left unsaid.

 

The expense of insuring hope

dooms creative anomalies

to tedious and ceaseless

indentured servitude.

 

And the day split-lip parasites

swarm like Death to claim souls,

the only cure

will waste away final days in

an attempt to prolong them.

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