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Going, Going... the
latest collection of poems by Leah Fritz,
Dead Brilliant Thing
Logic alone will change no pattern. You must cut around the fabric of deceit, replacing each temptation with a new enticement, trading sweet for sweet.
We see the sun drowsily arise yet know it is a dead, if brilliant, thing incapable of consciousness. The lies our senses tell us have a truthful ring.
Too often men have fought for lies, too often died for cold, unbreathing things, and even now in praise of martyrdom sing maudlin hymns, preferring death to reason.
Outside broad daylight hides a rage in store for shadows that unmask their metaphor.
© Leah Fritz, from Going, Going..., 2007 bluechrome, ISBN 978-1-906061-20-3 (hardback); reprinted in New Humanist, Jan-Feb 2008 |
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