Why do we
delight
in keeping
secrets?
Why do we
hide and
how do
we get by
on lies?
Taunt and
tease and
sing the old
refrain
“I know…

Remember the spiders I’d leave in the tub.
Remember how I’d always interrupt —
And I won’t forget how,
Back to me, without a peek,
You could…

“He won. Get over it!”
“Why can’t you just move on?”
“Why can’t we all get along?”
We’re here to right the wrongs the right seeks to prolong.
We’re here to dismantle the swamp they move to install.
We’re here to better ourselves and each other,
And if that makes us bitter sore losers, so be it.
Because the…