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not everything can be hidden forever

By Roderick MakimPublished 22 days ago 1 min read

Society in

Simulacrum

Shuffling sins

Between marked decks,

Despoiled copies of

Hoyle’s - all

Laws now

Unmoored from

Reality

In this warped-mirror

Imitation

Of society.

_

(But)

_

Not every

Fraud

Is so easily

Hidden.

_

Even in

Farce

Something true

Can be

Found.

_

Look closer.

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About the Creator

Roderick Makim

Read one too many adventure stories as a child and decided I'd make that my life.

I grew up on a cattle station in the Australian Outback and decided to spend the rest of my life seeing the rest of the world.

For more: www.roderickmakim.com

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