on manipulation

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some people do it
unintentionally, send it with
roses and a "best wishes" card

but I didn't know what to think anymore,
how to think anymore,
formulate a clear picture with
loose threads and a runaway
rationale

the way you wrung truths 'round their necks,
smoked out sensibility and the premise of
my own decisions;

I am wary of your wine and the opinions that follow,
(your sour notes play on 
                                  stop, rewind, repeat)
and the next person to wipe their feet on the welcome mat?
I'm wary of them too, and the
next and the next,

watching secrets on the night wind
blow away like the
sand over my eyes,
the salt between my teeth.

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