Monday, October 12, 2026

Fact Checked Out

 

The spotlight cuts through the dim

Into it the ancient salesman 
swaggers in

Armed with slick confidence
bordering on arrogance

Like a Shakespearean thespian
he takes control of the stage

This is his canvas
where the artist crafts
another persuasive masterpiece
of half truths wrapped in sincere promises

A virtuoso master class performance 
fine tuned over time
to lure in the pigeons
and relieve them of coin

But it's a different flock today

Fact checking his every pitch
real time on their hand held devices

Still our hero keeps dancing

Like a fly caught in a web of reality

The more he spins the deeper he sinks

It's just not easy selling
to skeptical consumers
who ain't buying

And when your financial existence
is based entirely on commission
this is a fatal condition 
for the well dressed dinosaur
who now sees his extinction

So it went
for the salesman once great

Death by internet
was his inevitable fate



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