Liar

They lied. 

He lied.

The most powerful man in this country.

He lied. 

I cannot tell a lie, George Washington

The cherry tree

What happened to I cannot tell a lie

The most powerful man in this country

Oh let’s just lie about it, they said

Let’s just make up a story

I paid him back

So he says now

After deciding to lie

Lying trumps truth saying

And the believers say, see we knew it

And the truth sayers flabbergasted fall silent

And even the comics can’t laugh

And we wonder where the monks are

The ones who poured fuel upon themselves

Lit a match and burned for hypocrisy 

They’d be called mad men

Their charred remains blown away

©Karen Casady2018