It took one second to recognize the type
and make fun of it
and twenty years to learn
the joke was absolutely true.
Your individual heart denies the joke---
but it knew, it knew.
"Hold on a minute!" you say
(in your best prose voice)
"let's not get carried away!
A waltz isn't learned in a day.
We live in a democracy.
Conspiracy equals bad poetry."
But still, the joke was absolutely true.
They only care about themselves.
But they want to love you.