Fake News

A poem of societal failure.

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Talking head
but no leg to stand on.
It doesn’t matter because
the conspiracy fits their agenda.
Their paste-face idol proclaims it to be truth
and it’s enough evidence for them.

Radicalization unregulated
in the name of free speech
and constitutional rights.

Yet they all cock their brows
and crinkle their noses
as they demand mountains of evidence
from the oppressed
who wish for the same…