Those

who don't want to tell the truth

or have something to hide

revert to the standard reply

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to hide their guilt

or their embarrassment

afraid of the press

some nosy reporter asking questions

or some antagonist ready to

rake them over the coals

 

they elude with the familiar

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cover their faces and their tracks

and run for the waiting limo

with cameras clicking

and the press in hot pursuit

like a bunch of hyenas

clamoring over a kill

 

the other option would be to just say

I don't know or even

I don't care

go bother someone else

but of course they won't do that

they don't have the guts

 

I, however

do have the guts

enough to write this poem

with this one disclaimer

 

the poem speaks for itself

other than that

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