and love is a lie
and hate is a lie
and men and women are liars liars all
and death is a lie just like
god is a lie
and hope and trust and belief
are lies
and truth don't get me
started on truth
and heaven and hell oh yes, lies, you know that
don't you
and out of body experiences are ho ho
jesus such lies
like jesus himself was a lie
and the tooth fairy and this keyboard
and my body and breath
and blood are lies
how can it be otherwise in a world
where einstein lied
and newton lied
and every witch doctor in every godforsaken village lied
and nuclear fission
is such a grandiose lie
like the surgeon's knife like a baby's gurgling laughter
like the ever expanding universe
like our idiot dreams
like the light in our ashes like
this very darkness
is a lie
like starting over
like courage like prayer like war
like
if you were only you
and i was only me
and the only judas we ever knew
was a judas tree