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My words

—speak only for themselves

(Dreamsleep: September, 2019)

Entrapment

Classic intelligence,

built on complexity

Layer upon layer,

 a spidering web

For us to get caught in,

for us to be trapped

Its capture most fatal

—not living or dead

(Dreamsleep: September, 2019)

Discoursed

Better to slip through

than run over

Better to finesse

than to force

Better to persuade

than to dictate

Discretion

—all meaning discoursed

(Dreamsleep: September, 2019)

Sacrificial Lambs

Hiding their poison,

colleges feign

Promising sunshine,

delivering rain

Knowledge infected,

politics vile

Lambs to the slaughter

—Athena defiled

(Villanova Pennsylvania: September, 2019)