the appearance of truth or reality
An attitude Marty was
eager to adopt
in his new career
was verisimilitude,
the ability to speak
truth to power,
to hold those in power
to the words they speak,
not merely in the facile
"fact-checker" domain
but in the manipulative
self-serving
self-aggrandizing
manner
designed to humiliate,
to silence opponents,
the kind of speech
so eagerly embraced
by those who don't realize
what they really support
because the confluence of modern agendas
has become toxic
rather than
uplifting,
a curious phenomenon,
a peculiar institution
of public discourse.
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