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'I Cannot Lie' and Other Poems, by Cianan Miles Mitchell

I Cannot Lie

Making friends isn’t easy.
Neither is:

  • Talking to yourself

  • Reading the room

  • Getting over there

  • Hitting the bottom

  • Standing back up

  • Falling over again

  • Braving the adversity

  • Functioning at all

  • Having a life

  • The right thing

  • Loads of debt

  • Eating the poor

  • Losing it all

This is the reason.

A Trick

I know a trick,
It'll surprise you.
I'm gone, but I will
Be back in 5 minutes.

Later than expected,
But you wanted a
Trick and looking
Over here is a white

Rabbit with a leaf
Of cabbage and now
The hat's disappeared
With the assistant who

Wanted a raise
D plain box with
A sword and a mirror
And a screwdriver

To fix the coffee machine
In the lobby with another
Juggler who unexpectedly
Walked into the wrong show.


Stained

I stained my teeth
Eating meat
It stretched out way
Too long
In the long run
But I
Feel too scared to
Just stop
Appreciate the journey
Be still
Eat a healthy vegetable
And rot.

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