You

Not to be Reproduced, 1937 by the Belgian surrealist René Magritte

You play a dangerous game

Sell truth to the highest bidder,

buy excuses on the cheap

Practiced at the art of the deal,

you trade tarnished falsehoods to refurbish

offer explanations two for one

You collect lies like rare coins,

toss them out in the street,

watch the people grab them up and

pocket them like treasures

When you look in the mirror,

can you see yourself

or are you as illusory

as your reflection? 

submitted for The Mag, Mag 161