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# Marionettes
- URL: https://www.hawkword.com/poetry/marionettes/
- Published: 2023-08-08T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2023-08-08T12:00:00.000Z
- Description: Conspiracists that graduate to practice -- mere theories no longer all the rage, and further, insufficient to distract us. By practicing, they manage to engage.
- Author: A. Gee
- Tags: Poetry, Sonnet, Allpoetry Import, #Import 2026-04-25 19:56

Conspiracists that graduate to practice --  
mere theories no longer all the rage,  
and further, insufficient to distract us.  
By practicing, they manage to engage.

Bear witness to the recent UFO news.  
The Pentagon, and hearings on the Hill.  
Aways from big ole' Bigfoot with his snowshoes,  
or choosing the right color for your pill.

What is this urgent need for hidden meaning,  
for proving that there is a puppeteer  
dictating ways in which each leaf is leaning  
and nobody and nothing is sincere?

The one and only "truth" of which we're certain:  
there is indeed a man behind the curtain.