the rushmore beekeeper: we are hard, Margaret Atwood

i.

We are hard on each other
and call it honesty,
choosing our jagged truths
with care and aiming them across
the neutral table.

The things we say are
true; it is our crooked
aims, our choices
turn them criminal.


ii.

Of course your lies
are more amusing:
you make them new each time.

Your…


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[vi-tree-uhs]
/ˈvɪtriəs/
–adjective
1.
of the nature of or resembling glass, as in transparency, brittleness, hardness, glossiness, etc.: vitreous china.
2.
of or pertaining to glass.
3.
obtained from or containing glass.
4.
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