Hypocrisy

Self preservation requires a level of pretense in us all

But aggressively misleading for the one purpose overall

Of attaining power over people—and then once it is attained

Revealing it a panoply which can never be sustained 

That is the hypocrisy of politics today
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December 3, 2016

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