The Franchise Of Disclosure

Contributor: John Ogden

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Discolored manilla envelopes
the franchise of disclosure
the secret movements of money
that mean nothing
hide nothing
hide only
the machinations of money men
the puppeteers that keep the peso down
and the dollar up
the puppeteers that power
the Rube-Goldberg machine
of metric misinformation
baiting the desperate
keeping them scared
scared and hopeful
always scared and hopeful.


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John Ogden was conceived of a government form and a passing mailbox. He lives somewhere out in the woods of a rural land more akin to the fantasy realms of literature than real life, and his favorite dirt bikes will always be the broken ones.