MAKING TERGIVERSATION
Forget making conversation,
or working rooms to set up connection;
the thing to be to win your war
is to be a tergiversationor:
A backslider, a traitor.
A turncoat, your deserter.
And a capricious apostate
with a volte-face.
Her word she would unsay
Qualify, flatter, make caprice;
Her side she would betray
Jilt, rat, people-please.
Aa Double-dealer
Fifth columnist;
A feel-good preacher
A Second secessionist.
He who would recant
He who renounces, rescinds;
Who quietly resiles, a plant,
As weathercock to all winds.
Side changer in a cricket game.
The plough's unsharing retractor.
The tell-tale who knows no shame.
In a consensus jury, the abjurer.
Quitter, Deserter;
Denier, deviationist.
Tergiversator;
Resiling recidivist.
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