Denial.
Every headline mocking
even as you turn away
refusing to acknowledge
the horrors here.
Excuses.
Speak loudly reapetedly
with passion and spittle
misdirecting
lest the left one see
what the right one is doing.
Lies told so often
that you actually believe
truth.
Vehemently argue
toss the words
give them something
anything
that will prove to distract.
What was the right one doing?
That diversions are required
playing to a public fear
it was all organized.
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