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[Brownlie]

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Your latter writings, better than the first:
so of course, the first is what they wanted,
before you hooked with Robby and Rick et. al.,
and really blew their ears out.
Judas: because you didn’t remain the image
of what they thought you were.
Inane questions asked by the file thirteeners’
answered more civilly than they deserved:
they couldn’t believe you told the truth,
so they kept at you, a bone for hungry dogs.
“Where does this stuff come from?”
“I don’t know, from the Devil or from God?”
Would any of us answer any differently?
Give them the truth and you're just giving them the dodge.
They say, "Do you expect use to swallow this swill?"
What can one say? We are Jesters all;
or,
“Song and dance Men,”
if you will!

–Erthona


©2011

I must admit I was a little confused here, but that's probably due to some ignorance on my part. Maybe some better punctuation would help. A colon should have an independent article before it in prose. Jesters we are seems like an awkward linguistic inversion as well. However, there seems to be a good theme in here that I would probably enjoy if I understood it better.