The truth is no longer
a matter of honesty
and honesty is no longer
a personal matter
The truth is whatever
has been decided
by some colloquial
presuppositions
preconditions
presumptions
Honesty is not what
you believe is true
but what it is supposed
to be believed as true
Honest declarations
contrary to preconceived norms
are detested as lies or worse
But to declare in ruminations
some perceptual platitude
is as if to intone a sacred verse
What do you call obscene
When this leads feet
to trod through excrement
and no voice may exclaim "shit"
for it would be considered indecent
and ears would not hear of it
What do you call obscene
When children are born
out of carelessness or stupidity
drunken momentum or some futility
into a world of diminishing potential
with resources being merely residual
What do you call obscene
When it is profane to express with great vexation
some public exclamation of "fuck"
but the masses may be reckless with procreation
with nothing to offer but hopes of luck
What do you call obscene
As it is considered noble
to demand the wealth achieved
to be redistributed unto those
that believe wealth is just received
and the prodigious
are maligned as insidious
What do you call obscene
As any virtuous future is ever precluded
by all that it must be consistent with
and the truth is perpetually excluded
by the preservation of ancient myth
What do you call obscene
As more of the same horrors
are retouched in reproduction
and passed off as if so new
or as if there's nothing else
that anyone could do
What do you call obscene
As the same insipid precepts
produce the same devastation
and any unorthodox concepts
are banned from conversation
What do you call obscene
Is it the words you were told not to say
Is it the hands that point in any other way
Is it anything you don't already approve
Is it any attempt to move
What is it
What might it be
What do you call it
What do you call obscene
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