Bamboozled

To believe what
We may wish to be
Real means we are too
Bamboozled to be rational.
Every general wants his
Opponent to believe
Rather than to be
Rational and
Thus trip on
Reality and
Fall victim
To the
Truth
That saying
Something does
Not make it a fact.
Lincoln asked a country
Jury how many legs a sheep
Has if you counted the tail
As a leg? One juror said
Five and Lincoln hit
His fist on the jury
Box railing and
Declared NO!
Calling a tail
A leg does
Not make
It so!
Just so
With fake
News that the
COVID is not real
Or that Trump won.
Saying it is so ain’t so.