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POETRY • HYPOCRISY • IDENTITY

method actors

When unchecked fear takes the moral high ground

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A person stands beneath a white spotlight on a worn theater stage, surrounded by three formally dressed figures wearing pale masks. The masked figures cast enormous shadows across the wall, while the central person’s shadow remains small. Dark curtains frame the scene. Along the bottom are a Tittu signature, tristanrobertlange.com, and an ornate gothic crest.
Image: AI-generated using ChatGPT and modified by the author; Poetry: written by Tristan Robert Lange, Human-authored.

the demand to be
secondhand
is absorbed
by the one being

banned —

was this master
planned? —

for fear so grand
that phobia goes

unscanned.

and method actors
take their stand
on the heads
of those they

damned.

POET’S NOTE:
Part of the Truth, Applied collection.

© 2026 Tristan Robert Lange. All rights reserved.
First published on tristanrobertlange.com, November 4, 2026.

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