lying
“no,
not
I”
explain
what?
how truth,
more times
than not,
has cost me
pieces of
my heart
—ear drums which
truth
hammers off of
connected to a
mind
doused,
wrecked,
in

u̸n̸a̸w̸a̸r̸e̸n̸e̸s̸s̸,
unhealed,
o̸b̸l̸i̸v̸i̸o̸u̸s̸n̸e̸s̸s̸,...