Doubletalk (Psalm 12)

Turn where?
Hear
Shark hearts, the fast
Talking, two-faced,
The beasts boast:
Truth
Trips and
Falls on
My lips:
If I say
It is so
It is so.

If God’s word be hot
Coal (my good thoughts
The embers)
Lord,
Stoke up a bonfire.
Those lip-lickers lurk
In the shadows
And eye me.

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