Sure says it well and does it, Bill. Yes!
On Tue, Mar 5, 2019 at 2:03 PM Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
> Listen.
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> Do you want,
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> Lennon asked
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> or was it McCartney,
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> to know a secret?
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>
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> Of course you do.
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> Who wouldn’t?
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> Access to closed knowledge,
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> you’re all ears.
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> A stillness hovers ...
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>
> then pow– you’re in the know!
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> Your eyes rocket
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> back in your head,
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> hands flutter up
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> to your lower face.
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>
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> Unlike gossip,
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> top secrets stun.
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> Gossip you weigh up,
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> not whether to tell
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> but who to tell first.
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>
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> Gossip wants out.
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> Secrets burrow in
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> and fester.
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> No longer are you
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> gladhandler.
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>
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> Some secrets are so tight
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> they cling to the secretist
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> but the best secrets
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> – and the worst – are shared
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> with just one other,
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> setting up a bond, a deal,
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> compromising the receiver.
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> There are good secrets of course,
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> surprise parties and whatnot
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> but bad secrets outsizzle them.
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> Are there ever good grounds
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> for secret spilling?
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> Is the Pope a Catholic!
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> All bets are off
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> for secrets thrust upon.
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> Loyalties recalibrate
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> when closet skeletons
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> spill into light.
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> O Secrets,
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> you world topplers.
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>
>
> bw
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