Rabbit Room day ten: Authentic

just be authentic
your “authentic self”
find your authentic voice
 
let the poem be proof
frame the evidence
with words
 
they will issue
a certificate of authenticity
if you keep at it
 
keep chipping away at meaning
digging into origins
facts and not facts
 
here in the poem
the poet exercises authority
imposes order on the world
 
imposes order on words
that just keep wriggling
a hook in the lip
 
the question is
whether this poem can be trusted
but then is anything ever true?
 
we tell lies
to tell the truth
write them down as proof