#310 - the acceleration of mendacity

(cartoon by Theo Moudakis) 

7.xi.20

310

the acceleration of mendacity

Cretan Liar series

with three senryu to take it out

 

 

here are the flaming pants of a carrot

steam out ears

 

let this be the last trumpery

except you know it won’t be

 

tedium

 

still no result

the news is breaking us

it’s 24/7

will the old men sleep?

woke many times this last night

 

here comes the next whopper

switch off

or is it

stand back and stand by?

 

the acceleration of mendacity

comes just as we hit the hall

 

tremendous lies

tremendous for our nation too

 

legend will be

in time to come

the book of what he didn’t do

and how so many still survive

 

lies thick as votes

could we bother a clock with it?

 

the only one ever without a dog

still a ghost comes back to bite

 

a lie to the world, to himself and to you

white, but who’ll say harmless?

 

stand in the corner

have a good long think

come back in when you can say sorry

 

two and a half more months

of the tantrum

how gracelessly this one must go

 

a wilting trumpet

mulches down

so I am called to the garden

 

Columbus went to the grave

thinking India

this one believes he’ll still win