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Previous Challenge Entry (Level 4 – Masters)
Topic: CONFUSED (07/29/21)
No, Later is first, and then Before.
Out is in somewhere, right next to Nowhere,
Just after Before and before After
But Out of line didn’t make the cut.
First is last, but not before
Somewhere bowed out and now is nowhere
Our well-ordered array is clear as day

What you’re saying makes no sense
If first is last and up is down
My head is spun wholly round
Clarity cannot be found
When words and names are fogs so dense

When names become things the things fall prey
To lies, to utter falsehoods that truth be slain
Names are servants to guide our thought
But inverted, names are tyrants who dungeon truth
And hide their wicked deeds in deepest fog

To find the freedom to think aright
We must trust the false guides of names that sift
The truth through sieves that filter out the thought we need
That keep the husk but lose the seed

Consider this then
Know what are thoughts, and what are names
Keep them in their proper frames
Match them well for proper fit
The path to truth will be well lit
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Laurie Kiel 
08/15/21
As a big fan of Abbott and Costello’s Who's on First, the title grabbed my attention and made me want to read it. I was not disappointed. I loved the wordplay. Good Job.