Fevered

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(Photo: Daniela Paola Alchapar on Unsplash)

 

They took the temperature

Of the crowd,

And realized they could

Twist skeins of truth into

Great blobs of knotted lies,

Then sell

As remedy

To now a fevered mob,

A distorted gospel

Bloated with melodramatic

Sighs.

 

 

 

For Sammi’s Weekend Writing Prompt of: Temperature in 37 words