Why do we lie upon this pillow?
Why do we lie unto ourselves?
Why do we lie being most
truthful? Why do we lie being
most false? Who can keep
straight the distinction between
the conjugations of "lay" and "lie,"
the words breeding like parmecium
our desires with our sense of ourselves?
We are all liars of the lying
desire that would say anything to lie
upon a pillow and lay another
to ourselves, remembering
the grammatical distinction only
by means of the mnemonic "I got laid."