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The Big, Big Lie

from Waiting For Angels by Peter Bruce Wilder

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the big, big lie
08.10.04
Peter Bruce Wilder
copyright 2007 Maplewood/Earllines, BMI

it started when you learned to spell
the word: ramifications
you called up all your friends
the week your parents had vacations

you disavowed the broken places,
dented fender, and the shattered vases
innocently dumb and mute
and smiling through your braces

so now you’re all grown up
you’ve told the big, big lie
because if you revealed the real
you’d look just like the fool

so keep up the appearances
and tell the big, big lie
embroidery expands the deal
and keeps the image cool

service with a smile
as if the pillows insulated
the stress scent from your pores
as you frictioned and gyrated

it’s not that I suspected
what your mannerisms showed me
it wasn’t undetected,
but the magnitude still bowed me

so now you’re all grown up
you’ve told the big, big lie
it’s not quite presidential
though impressive in its scope

so let’s keep up appearances
and tell the big, big lie
it seems so residential
as you struggle just to cope

truth is as truth gets
never pure or quite compelling
truth hurts as truth lets
never sure, it’s in the telling

service with a smile
as if the pillows insulated
the stress scent of your pores
as you frictioned and gyrated
it’s not that I suspected
what your mannerisms showed me
and it wasn’t undetected,
but the magnitude still bowed me

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from Waiting For Angels, released April 5, 2007

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