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Wait—
Was it then?
Was that my only warning?
A moment of fictionalized truthfulness
Lain in a barrage of lies?
I missed it—
hardly surprising—

Although I was inclined to look the other way, I hardly think
You gave the truth fair spotlight

Deception being relative, and all.