{"id":4739,"date":"2023-11-06T05:28:43","date_gmt":"2023-11-06T10:28:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/?p=4739"},"modified":"2023-11-03T13:38:41","modified_gmt":"2023-11-03T17:38:41","slug":"poem-repleting-lies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/06\/poem-repleting-lies\/","title":{"rendered":"POEM: Repleting Lies"},"content":{"rendered":"

War is fertile territory for hyperbole, to put it kindly. More to the point, war is built on lies. Big lies. Little lies. Really big lies. Truth is the first casualty of war — most of the rest are civilians. This poem takes to task the media as lapdogs snacking on convenient lies than doing the actual work of reporting and fairly integrating the inconvenient truths strewn a bout.<\/p>\n

Repleting Lies<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

The secretaries of war called
\nMirrorly won more
\nPress conference
\nDesigned too replete lies
\nAnd for truly scrappy correspondence
\nIn bedded journalists
\nThe tip of the spear stuck
\nWear truth lies
\nAs only wore propaganda
\nAnd naked fiction frozen
\nAs lockness monster
\nA hit and myth undertaking
\nIncreasing make believe ability
\nAs parrot with irrelevant dictums
\nA vicious cycle of knews
\nRe-hearsing and re-hearsing
\nTill their grate reword
\nReckoned just
\nDoing their jobs
\nAping muck rakers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

War is fertile territory for hyperbole, to put it kindly. More to the point, war is built on lies. Big lies. Little lies. Really big lies. 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