How many times have I said that I choose sincerity?
How many times must I say it?

Please stop coating each line with sugar
just to get me to swallow it.

We must interrogate the liars,
but we needn't catalog their lies.

Once a titillating pitch,
now a superfluous irrelevance.

My culture taught me lessons
for a life it was no longer possible to live.

I must purge my urge to purge
the inconsequential and the immoderate.

Life is framed like a riddle
while, in fact, it is a shaggy dog story.