William ‘Bill’ Kristol
I am a risk as I am worst liar.
All art. A mask. A troll.
I talk, talk, talk - slow.

Stow it! All swill.
As a warm skim-milk malt. Rot.
I sit, air all, talk a lot – all as a list, as I am most slow.
Still, I talk a lot.
I last, last …
I stir all, I soak all.
As I talk a lot – war aims – I swim in roil, in a storm.
Or as I sail in, talk a lot – war arms – I am lost – a mist.
As a stark liar, I will sit at a trial.
I will rail! I will stall. At last, I will sit.
I will toil - moist straw, soil, loam.
I will walk stairs. I will ail as a toll.
‘Tis writ.