devils in distress

"We risk being the first people in history to have been able to make their illusions so vivid, so persuasive, so 'realistic' that they can live in them."

secrets
that will not save me

noms de guerre
& broken alibis

this new horizon
more fiercely etched

than any
i pretended to gaze past in my pride

the man in the high gristle
from his high streaming perch

"What connects an Islamic-mausoleum-themed casino to a short-lived, shoddy professional football league to an autobiography he didn’t write to buildings he didn’t build to a mail-order meat business to beauty pageants to an airline that lasted three years to a sham “university” to a fragrance called Success to a vodka and a board game named after himself to a reality-TV show about pretending to fire people?"

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