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The Scribes Confession
by Marvin Eli Kirsh → (All Poetry by Marvin Eli Kirsh)
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You want it recorded?

 for the post terioralized world  

    for the world exterior

       and they filled in the event

       with hot dogs for a quarter

     an international talk as you think

                  for a naturalized border

'well I'

  can't for an honest lie

    lie

      but once

        so that

those dogs for a quarter

   don't make you a rich hot dog vendor 

       and

  me an increment quarter poorer

     at the international

        exchange rate

        at my meager wages

             to record yesterday

                 for tomorrow

well,... if I not lie

     everyone grow poor

        including the  hot dog vender

         sees his chance make for himself

             a richer bigger space

               charging a quarter

                  at an international rate

 

    And I resolved 

            the only way

                   lie at an international rate

                      tell the scheming vendor

                              what I think to lie

                                   make us both richer

            "I told all the tax rate on the international gate

                       go up 1/3 a quarter by noon day"

 a lie so he make his dogs look like free taxes 

    and today I got rich selling hot dogs for a quarter

       bought a house 

         right on

           sits both sides

                of the border 

                 looks like I pay two taxes

                   but only a new rate of

                      plus !/3 a quareter.

So today I still say I never tell a lie

   taxes go up

       and

           both me and the vendor

               not both a 1/3 quarter poorer

less for my own conscientious

   peace

       live half one place half another

         not seen together with my taxes at both

  a' live and Know where I walked the level

         a'scribe to my letters

                a' flourishing

                    diversely pleasing

any eye

any border

where they pay each as I

 only one third a quarter

         

          

          

  Marvin E. Kirsh 

 

 

 


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