SHORT POEM
DUPLICITY
by Jim Murdoch
If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, then it just may be a duck – Oxford Reference
Something is often mistaken for
Nothing and vice versa, because
we see what we expect to see.
Something and Nothing are twins,
paternal twins as it happens, and
you know what twins can be like.
They love messing with our minds,
trading places, talking in tongues
and reading each other’s thoughts.
Truth is, this pair is here and there
barring looks and a pressing need
to serve as each other’s punchline.
Not so sure who’s the evil one, mind.
They both come with… issues.
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Jim Murdoch has been writing poetry for fifty years and has graced the pages of many now-defunct magazines and a few, like Ink, Sweat and Tears and Poetry Scotland, that are still hanging on in there. For ten years he ran the literary blog The Truth About Lies but now lives quietly in Scotland with his wife and (increasingly) next door’s cat. He has published two books of poetry, a short story collection and four novels.
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