PAY NO ATTENTION TO THAT MAN BEHIND THE...

   

        You're looking for a wizard?
            Don't look here.
                (I'm no Professor Marvel.
                    I'm a sham.)
        Whenever I sense
            someone's need or fear,
                I play the part.
                    I let them think I am.
        It's true I lie,
            but as a poet lies.
        We both were boring Kansas
            born and bred.
                (I think it's black and white life
                    we despise.)
            We long
                for rainbow tinted lands instead.
        To raise an emeralded city
            was their dream.
        Don't hurry back too soon,
            for as you view it
                so you build it too
                    and it would seem the old
                        (if I've done my job well)
                            is new.
            So make your own Oz.
            Find your own way home.
                Now go.
                    Don't trust this poet,
                    trust your poem.

 

 

 

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[TLK]

I don't want to trust my poetry; it lies.