Lies were more real before the days
of complexity
exiting the opening without hesitation
perpetuating stories of heroic proportions
of life and death
and everything in between.

What does life have that lies do not?
Where is that place
more frequented than fiction?
Excuse the manipulated photograph
that reveals somebody who is not real
but merely computer generated epidermis.

These days a (wo)man can walk
ten thousand miles
without lifting a foot
yet is lying when saying
(s)he�s been to Paris.

Truth and lies are indistinguishable
to the most perceptive eyes.
We see what we believe
yet disbelieve
the truth that stares us in the face.

Copyright, 1997, by J. Matthew Waters
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