I came upon this poem in my textbook and found it to be very funny. Tell me what you guess think.
Martha Collin's "Lies"
Anyone can get it wrong, laying low when she ought to lie, but is it a lie for her to say she laid him when we know he wouldn't lie still long enough to let her do it? A good lay is not a song, not anymore; a good lie is something else: lyrics, lines, what if you say dear sister when you have no sister, what if you say guns when you saw no guns, thought you know, they're there? She laid down her arms; she lay down, her arms by her side. If we don't know, do we lie if we say? If we don't say, do we lie down on the job? To arms! in any case dear friends. If we must lie, let's not lie around. 1999
I love how lie is used in so many different ways. xd
Wolf_Spirit_Angel · Wed Apr 15, 2009 @ 06:29pm · 1 Comments |