Tiptoeing on broken glass<\/p>\n
I hear the laughter<\/p>\n
I see the smiles<\/p>\n
I smell the tears<\/p>\n
There is an elephant in waiting<\/p>\n
and a mouse in mourning<\/p>\n
twisting the remnants<\/p>\n
of triumphant repose.<\/p>\n
Glazed edges sense oblivion<\/p>\n
carved by the hands of crime<\/p>\n
tranquil empathy<\/p>\n
engineered compatibility<\/p>\n
tests of courage and of blood<\/p>\n
cannot stem the tidal mass<\/p>\n
inherent in truth<\/p>\n
succulent in agony<\/p>\n
triple bypasses bypass the bypass<\/p>\n
electric fences feed the wireless generation<\/p>\n
and no-one knows where they are anymore<\/p>\n
the elephant sighs<\/p>\n
the mouse cries<\/p>\n
the end is nigh<\/p>\n
is night<\/p>\n
and day is cause<\/p>\n
for celebration<\/p>\n
Possibilities prey upon loss<\/p>\n
loss preys upon catharsis<\/p>\n
there is no truth<\/p>\n
but truth<\/p>\n
and terror cannot divide<\/p>\n
the understanding<\/p>\n
of fallacy<\/p>\n
Trembling tongues<\/p>\n
speak to banter of a quiet nature<\/p>\n
trees felled<\/p>\n
in orchards are felt<\/p>\n
in paddocks<\/p>\n
across the sea<\/p>\n
as the elephant smiles<\/p>\n
and the mouse inflates itself<\/p>\n
to meet the challenge<\/p>\n
of survival.<\/p>\n
Trained monkeys are watching you<\/p>\n
as the source of all knowledge<\/p>\n
claims another life<\/p>\n
in another place<\/p>\n
in a separate time<\/p>\n
tracing the logic<\/p>\n
of counter-logic<\/p>\n
terraces of fear built<\/p>\n
in a wasteland of guilt<\/p>\n
Transparency<\/p>\n
wins<\/p>\n
every<\/p>\n
time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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