For Real Toads: the unreliable narrator

Over at the website of the online writers' group, Imaginary Garden with Real Toads, Kerry has challenged us to write a poem with an unreliable narrator. She says "write a poem from the first person point of view using a narrator whose unreliability becomes clear to the reader through the course of the narrative"

and she offers a few suggestions to consider as a starting point:

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tall tales

poisoned pen

impaired memory

hearsay/ gossip

prejudice

diminished capacity

intoxication

personal gain

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Pssst, don’t tell anyone I told you,

you didn’t hear a word from me,

but I know for a fact that...

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You-know-who and Whatsisname are

lunching daily at that new bar.

Mr. Green has bought a sports car.

Down the street the Smiths are pregnant,

and the Joneses’ pool is stagnant.

Mrs. Brown has two new boyfriends,

gossip about her never ends.

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But, of course, I’d never gossip,

don’t say you heard it first from me

because, you know, I’ll disagree.