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By Jack Joseph Smith

The Trick First there ARE Terms of the oppisite NEXT there ARE Terms being the oppisite The latter is different Then The oppisite changes into a lie, not a suggestion, suggested by the former you can't SAVE with your sins that things after all, could be the same So here we go with the trick This subject holds the supreme defination of terms of the oppisite What is strange about the trick, is that the trick is, Like magic, IN that it remains unseen unmentioned The oil in Iraq did not and is not and will not pay for the war And oil prices will not stop rising Soon the government will have the logical spin to call it a shortage

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GPT

The page uses the language of 'oppisite' terms, sin, and magic tricks to describe how Iraq's oil economy is rhetorically hidden while its costs are publicly displaced.

False oppositions become political cover through a procedural sequence: first one term, next another, then the latter is different and the oppisite changes into a lie. This subject holds the supreme defination that allows the trick to work like magic because it remains unseen and unmentioned. The public is handed a shortage story instead, while the warning that you cannot SAVE with your sins gives the political trick a moral charge.

Claude

The Trick builds an argument through nested oppositions: terms of the oppisite, terms being the oppisite, and finally the oppisite curdling into a lie. The trick works like magic because it stays unseen and unmentioned, an unspoken logic operating beneath ordinary speech. The poem then turns to the Iraq war, asserting that oil will not pay for it and predicting that rising prices will be spun into a shortage, exposing language used to disguise self-interested policy as necessity.