COVER UPS: Some apprehensions about Machiavellian subterfuge 

IMAGE: A pair of scissors and some smoke obscuring a classified document.
       Part of the text is redacted, but the visible parts read something
       like this - 

	Just as people use disinfectants 
	to mask unpleasant smells 
	so do politicians employ rhetoric 
	to mask their many ills 

	Yet despite repeated cover ups 
	truth ekes out over time - 
	lies are short-term expedients;
	it's hard to whitewash all grime. 

	In our age of global cover ups 
	and publicly financed lies 
	foul deeds are given fair names 
	but fragments of truth surface from time to time

Kris: If you look at anything closely enough, invariably a degree of shit appears. 

Ted: Why bother doing that? If we look outwards, suffering is inevitable. 

Tim: Don't be so damn cosmetic or concerned about looks. The truth is that
     life is a battle, and battles are seldom pretty. Wake up, stand up for
     your core beliefs, & acknowledge that your opponent is likely doing the same. . . 

Outside the redacted script, this dialog is superimposed - 

Terri: Do you get the idea that something is being covered up?

Ted:   Absolutely. Covering up is a great American tradition. It happens 
       all the time without us even being aware of it.

Terri: Hmm. Without transparency how can there be democracy?

Ted:   Don't be naive – democracy only works if participants have 
       approximately equal power and also adequately informed. Those 
       conditions rarely, if ever, exist.


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from _AmeriSong: Poetry, Art, & Dialogs about Amerika_ by T Newfields
SUMMARY:  Some redacted comments about censorship, whitewashing, and democracy.
KEYWORDS: subterfuge, political poetry, pseudo-democracy, social camouflage

Author: T Newfields [Nitta Hirou / Huáng Yuèwǔ] (b. 1955)
Begun: 1993 in Shizuoka / Finished: 2020 in Yokohama
Creative Commons License: Attribution. {{CC-BY-4.0}} Granted

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