Boldist Creed

Boldist honesty is to lie in a poem,
to exaggerate discord,
to publicly expose absurdities of the heart
and to be
an open liar.
To reverse poetic decision
is to wallow in ungrounded humility
and to deny subjectivity,
the key ingredient in human soup.

 

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