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by Zanne Isak

The more I read, the more I think I cannot say
the search for truth has been abandoned;
I doubt it ever had a beginning
or a holding to be abandoned.

We are content with what the billboards say,
and a solution for hunger is just a cheese steak,
so if anything has been abandoned I'm sure
it's not truth, because truth was never here.

"We worry," I worry, and "is she all right" --
how much is love and what is "we" and
what is "I"? Are you stuck here?
Do people die here. Will you die, stuck here?

What will it say, if the truth is told,
instead of being abandoned to die like a child
on the hills outside of Rome?

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