MUTE or loquacious, as chance may require,
Shrewdly complacent, quick to equivocate,
Bluff, bully, browbeat, brag, conciliate,
Cant, sympathise, or jest – both quack and liar –
He is the creature of effete desire;
The market-gauge of bargainings which inflate
His windbag mind with words to vindicate
The acts that his scarce-witting words respire.
Mendacity is his perfection. He,
Conventionally too timid to degrade
Truth frankly, as a thief does, affably
Smirks acquiescent, never unafraid
To envy those who daunt his jealousy –
Who dare to plot, rob, pilfer, rape, and raid.
(E J Rupert Atkinson)
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