Truth

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took a taxi cab from the airport to Denver
          talked to the cabbie, said his kids
               lived in Georgia, Savannah
                    had grown up and left

told him I was Catholic, my friend and I,
     said he was Catholic too, before
          he converted a month ago

he said it was about the food,
     that they fed you better
          in that Christian church
   
I smiled, mumbled something
      about trying to find truth
           'whatever you believe,
                fine with me
           as long as you truly 
                believe it'

but he simply shook his head,
    at thirty years my senior knew
         what a load of crap that was
                  for if that were the case

why if that were the case, then truth wouldn't
          be any sort of thing at all,
    
                                now would it?

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