Suckers

by Joe Farley

Deception requires assistance
from those who are deceived,
that conscious choice
to add up the facts
in one way and not another,
overlooking obvious signs
and trails that lead to pain,
content to hide your head
and look the other way
until there is no escape from facts,
or what is most likely true,
and then, oh then, pity the world
and pity you.