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Journalistic Integrity

Kurt Philip Behm

Journalistic integrity,
give me a break

Your lies are on fire,
the devil at the gate

Journalistic integrity,
the wages of sin

All truth has been twisted,
your soul has worn thin

Journalistic integrity,
oxymoron disclosed

Two words now in conflict,
their corruption exposed

Journalistic integrity,
death by your own hand

To not be remembered,
—your lies to withstand

(Villanova Pennsylvania: June, 2016)
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on June 23, 2016

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Scheme Ax xx Ab xb Ac xc Ad xd x
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 388
Words 63
Stanzas 9
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1
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