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Reasonable dialog, dead as a hot dog,
\nhas been packed away with the rats.
\nFreedom of thinking, burnt out and stinking,
\nis now criticized as ersatz.
\nIn the land of money, the currency is lies.
\nThe golden rule’s the stuff of fools.
\nForget the things you learned in schools,
\nThe new frontier, it seems, is where truth dies.
\nThere is no benefit for honesty.
\nIt’s painted now as last resort of rubes.
\nMisinformation has a ministry,
\nwhile truth and trust slide quickly down the tubes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Reasonable dialog, dead as a hot dog, has been packed away with the rats. Freedom of thinking, burnt out and stinking, is now criticized as ersatz. In the land of money, the currency is lies. … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[3],"class_list":["post-1253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poem-2","tag-poem"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1242,"url":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=1242","url_meta":{"origin":1253,"position":0},"title":"May Day 49","author":"Rick Young","date":"May 1, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Forty nine questions. The croaker croaks. The tweeter tweets. The garden of heathens is showing its colors. In the weeds predators huddle. 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