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# Nom de Plume
- URL: https://www.hawkword.com/poetry/nom-de-plume/
- Published: 2025-12-17T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2025-12-17T12:00:00.000Z
- Description: I’m using my poetic license in lieu of government ID. They take it since I cannot lie. Since, as Abel or as Zebedee, despite the lateness of the hour, I speak of only truth to power, a truth that wouldn’t be denied, n...
- Author: A. Gee
- Tags: Poetry, Sonnet, Allpoetry Import, #Import 2026-04-25 19:56

I’m using my poetic license  
in lieu of government ID.  
They take it since I cannot lie. Since,  
as Abel or as Zebedee,  
despite the lateness of the hour,  
I speak of only truth to power,  
a truth that wouldn’t be denied,  
nor could be, even if I tried.

A pseudonym, that great invention  
which lets a poet speak his mind  
without a fear of being fined  
or worser still, an intervention,  
thus beating any pair of docs.

Unless you’re doxxed. A paradox.

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