Saturday, March 11, 2017

998 - The Second Estate


Three Word Wednesday requires participants
to use the three words of the week in a composition.
The words this week are: 

raspy, shifty, painful


The Second Estate

They give us unctuous, shifty lies
And we lap them up, whole.
Not raspy, these are silky smooth—
Words that paint a tromp l’oeil
To fool,
Fool in a hope that you’ll
Approve
Of their deceptive act.
They get rich by this enterprise
And that’s a painful fact.
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© J Cosmo Newbery 2017
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6 comments:

  1. True. And sadly we make it easy for them to lie to us.

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  2. It does not help that most people are not encouraged to question or think for fear of being politically incorrect and not adhering to the prevailing social mores.

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  3. So right.. I live in the land of unctions shifty lies .. ugh..

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  4. Good use of the required words to compose this truth

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  5. Lee, did you send me an email re:Amazon delivery?

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