Choose Your Best Disguise (A Sestina of Sorts)

from Faint Young Sun by King Everything

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DISGUISE the hundred LIES
you tell with a quarter million quarts of EXCUSES.
THE WORLD cannot persuade THE GIRL
to stray from the man whom she CHOOSES.
CHOOSE your worst DISGUISE for THE GIRL.
CHOOSE your worst DISGUISE from THE GIRL.
LIES might make THE WORLD
go round, but so do EXCUSES.

EXCUSES are what a loser CHOOSES
to help explain his failures to THE WORLD.
DISGUISE mistakes we've made with LIES
and hope to still impress THE GIRL.
THE GIRL, we hope, EXCUSES the LIES.
THE GIRL, we think, EXCUSES the LIES.
CHOOSE the best fit of DISGUISE
to prance around all proud in THE WORLD.

THE WORLD never asked THE GIRL
to step out from behind her DISGUISE.
EXCUSES that nobody CHOOSES
are seen to be nothing more than LIES.
LIES that THE WORLD didn't CHOOSE.
LIES that THE WORLD wouldn't CHOOSE.
THE GIRL asks you to EXCUSE
her favorite DISGUISE.

LIES told by THE GIRL...
THE WORLD simply EXCUSES...
CHOOSE your best DISGUISE.

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from Faint Young Sun, released May 22, 2013

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