The great pretender
Will shade you
With a red bulb
Affirm your beliefs
And moral code
A carnival of mirrors
Reflecting a perfect image
depending upon a linear
Or horizontal line
Fooling you with warm
Chicken soup
A liposuction
From unpleasantness
Coveting you under
Its hood and cape
While juxtaposing everything else
The enemy is hidden
Beneath the mask
With no identity
You believe every word
spoken
Every word read
Deeply invested in illusion
A hypnotic spell repeating
Over and over
And over again
Until
