I remember saying
to a friend
in high school
nothing is true
which troubled me
isn’t that a truth?
he asked in response
making it even worse
for while
it seems in the realm of possibility
that nothing is true
language can’t be made to say it
to be a speaker at all
you are committed to the existence
of at least one truth
it doesn’t seem fair
that language should so encumber the world
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