Angie Werren

THE TRUTH

"You can't handle the truth!"

        – Colonel Jessup, A Few Good Men 

it leaps from my mouth a giant squid 

gelatinous in its own secretions 

furtive tentacles wiggle out of 

concealment 

you pretend to look away ignore 

the spectacle turn up your nose 

to its stink 

deckhands 

rush to the rescue with rope and trawlers