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Recorded Reading (1:40): https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/qxbto4cbxr19900azzpia/Truth-Told.mp3?rlkey=g527cb4yr9mvdut2oc7qjxhht&dl=0

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Truth Told

Well, now I’ve told the truth — it was
The truth of love, beside
Behind no scatological
References did I hide

Nor any individual
Characteristic bring to mock;
Of only real infringement
To civility I’d talk

Nor made fun of anything
Odd, nor yet unusual
Of which every true character,
We may depend on it, is full ~

Perhaps I so the angels please
As I had asked on mental knees,
Perhaps I drew definitive
Requisite boundaries

Perhaps I have prevented
More pain than did create,
Perhaps a headlong rush toward
Increasing trouble thus abate

Perhaps, perhaps I have been all
That the best of friends should be
Cognizant, concerned, courageous
Nor unkind in honesty

Perhaps, in past, I have
Spoken only positively
So that in this here now
There a constructive balance be

Perhaps create awareness
Perhaps some credit get
For meticulous caring —
There’s no way of knowing yet

Whether so I hatred have
Or true affection have inspired
It required all my energy
Now, I am only tired

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