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\nYou called it character assassination.
\nA clinical phrase.
\nPrecise.
\nTechnical.<\/p>\n
\nYou called it character assassination.
\nA clinical phrase.
\nPrecise.
\nTechnical.<\/p>\n
As if we were characters on a page.<\/p>\n
But I know better.
\nI know who you are.<\/p>\n
You thought I wouldn\u2019t notice
\nthe hand that only seemed to reach.<\/p>\n
You thought I didn\u2019t hear it\u2014
\nnot the quiet edits,
\nnot the careful lines delivered
\nwhen I was in the scene,
\nbut the hypocrisy
\nwhen I wasn\u2019t there.<\/p>\n
And now you stand before me again,
\nwearing that actor\u2019s smile\u2014
\nthe illusionist,
\ntrying to distract me
\nwith words of innocence.<\/p>\n
I might have played along.<\/p>\n
But trust me\u2014
\nI know.<\/p>\n
And I have no need to diminish you.
\nYour lies do that well enough on their own.<\/p>\n
After all\u2014
\nit isn\u2019t assassination
\nif the wound
\nis the truth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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