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Dedicated to serial lovers and their sidekicks.

The contents of this book contain graphic depictions of a highly sensitive nature, including violence, abuse, deceit, and lust; may trigger some readers who have experienced similar traumas.

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The House of Two Truths

Dr Q

Cover by Dr Q: a white form curves against pure black, dividing the cover in two; the title and byline set in red down the left.

The House of Two Truths is a weighing up, an insider’s look at the anatomy of betrayal, deceit and the emotional baggage inflicted by serial two-timing double dealers.

The constraints of the concrete poetry and the Quadrille in all its forms provide an avenue for precision of thought expression and offer a road map of sorts for sarcasm, resignation, jagged truths, and hard-won clarity, or in the case of The House of Two Truths, clinical view.

The Quadrille Quarter (11 words, excluding title) and Quadrille Half (22 words, excluding title) are poetic forms invented and established by the author in 2025. Both derive from the Quadrille, a 44-word poem excluding the title, introduced by dVerse Poets Pub in 2016 to promote concise writing.

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Poems

  1. Snapshot of Longing
  2. Marauder of the Heart
  3. Papered Promises
  4. The Anchor Splits
  5. Earth Proposes His Moon
  6. Suspended
  7. Tales of Dirt
  8. Performance Art
  9. Black Swifts Don’t Favor the Eclipse
  10. Paltry
  11. The Rubble Rises
  12. Lessons
  13. The Fog of Folly
  14. Death After the Deed
  15. Sidesteps
  16. Notes to Self, Labeled as Poems
  17. When Lust Disembowels the World
  18. Like Noah
  19. A Woman Swings an Axe
  20. The Laugh of Judas
  21. Pointer From One Who Knows
  22. Victimhood Becomes Him
  23. In Vitro
  24. Ode to the Two Face
  25. Serial Lovers
  26. Dirty Old Coogers
  27. Relics On a Shelf
  28. A Matter of Moneyed
  29. A Shipwreck On a Calm Sea
  30. Littered
  31. Not One More Whimpering Wave
  32. Undercurrents, Electric
  33. Ballad For Yesterday’s Trash
  34. Ballad of the Burdens
  35. The Whore Hound Strikes Again
  36. In the House of Two Truths
  37. All Aboard, Or Not
  38. Silence Is a Loud Noise
  39. Stone Answers Stone
  40. Says the Sage
  41. The Green is Always Grassier
  42. I Betrayed the Sombre
  43. I Know How the Sun Feels
  44. A Thirst That Never Dies