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Fluent in selfish ambition and sleight of hand

An elegant bachelor and bed-hopping voyeur

Manipulation is easy

I won’t be the wiser

For a while you embraced the Catholic faith

For influence and tools of the persuasive trade

Abandoned when faith became obsolete

Agnostics have less issues with fidelity

Pay your dues and pay the piper with a string of one-liners

It’s pointless to resist:

Let’s share in this like lovers and communists

An entrepreneur in the art of conversation

Carefully staged and awkwardly distant

You said, “Admittedly we’re guilty of social sins”

“It’s a small concession for the twisting of whims”

Pay your dues and pay the piper with a string of one-liners

It’s pointless to resist:

Let’s share in this like lovers and communists