reclame

  we'll call the first precept god
while those to follow will be named as its sins
clutching, callow,
  things annotated in ant mimicry
  and there's no differentiating between
these placebos and their invisible elephant tracks
  analyzed in offices
under red-eyed microscopes and washed
with eighteen-molar sulfuric acid
 
  and our victory only meant
that history had erased the other contestants
or conflated them with unscrupulous
dressed up versions of common sense  
  a canard
  clutching, callow,

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