apocryphal

history, they say,
is written
by the winners
winner-winners
full of chicken dinners
but I say
history is bought
by the buyers and
repackaged and
resold by their liars
who would build
collective memory
out of the apocryphal
conspiracy so bountiful
truths pulled like taffy
from not to maybe
stretched so thin
as to be invisible
and thus we the indivisible
become the unadvisable
when the spurious so risible
and yet so easily believed
deceivers always find
the easy to deceive