Regarding Liars
All The Pretty Liars
“It’s only a cyst,”
they said, long ago.
But I wasn’t sure
and wanted to know.
“It’s only so big,”
they said. What an answer!
Little or not the
damn thing was cancer.
“It’s only an arm,”
they said, with a knife.
“So what will it be then,
your arm or your life?”
“It’s only one organ,”
they said. “You don’t need it.
We’ll take it right out
and a pump will succeed it.”
‘It’s only your hair,”
they said. “Don’t get down.
Bald guys are everywhere,
they’re all over town.”
“It’s only your eyebrows,”
they said. ‘No big deal.”
But whenever they’re missing
it’s a little surreal.
“It’s only your dignity,
only your pride.
You’re lookin’ terrific!”
they said. But they lied.
march 2009
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Your poem rings of truth (ironic, huh?)