The
The truth

The truth alone
I(ve) demand(ed)
To my own detriment
From my own talk in turn
         Tape measures 
         Labels on cans of tuna fish
         Turned-in-on-time book reports
         Titles alphabetized by author’s last name
         T-shirt tags that show  the fruits’ collection method

         Worst of all  thought   and turns dreams take
         When I faced the sunrise but only walked backward
         
         
         The rattling-chain-suspended (wrought iron) crate sprung open to disclose blank space left behind by its juggler-magician vanished 

Badger, badger, still trapped by hounds,
who and how do you employ
so creative, adept, to, somehow, 
keep inventing 
  new varieties of lies?