Inevitably
your biographer
is getting it all wrong.
His little screen
recapitulates
the few known facts.
With rapidly dabbing
fingertips he coaxes
a workable pattern, till
there it is –
the truth at last!
And you stand condemned
to centuries
of ignominy,
your well-polished plea unheard.
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