Where There's Smoke, There's A Liar

Where There's Smoke, There's A Liar

A Poem by Pete
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The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer. - Thoreau

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Liar's pants.
Fire ants.
War's bombs.
Eyes of peeping Toms.
California wild.
Charges filed.
Bellowing from factory's stack.
Giving rise to a carcinogenic smack.
Floating swirl from lit cigarette.
No need to fret just yet.

Back seat of limousine car.
Mafia czar's fuming cigar.
Discharged from auto's exhaust.
Burden of environmental cost.
Not all is lost.
Electric chair's sentence parsed.
The one I'm not afraid of infrequent and sparse.
When someone blows some ...
... up my arse ...



© 2019 Pete


Author's Note

Pete
“If I put my head deliberately into the fire, there is no appeal to fire or to the maker of fire, and I have only myself to blame.” - Thoreau

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Pete
Pete

Boston, MA



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