I am kept in bondage by the moles of my beloved.
Irony dissolves sentiment, but occasionally a sentiment is strong enough to dissolve irony.
Innocence: I am only stepping on your face because it lies in my path.
The haiku lets meaning float; the aphorism pins it down.
The beginning, middle, and end are parodied, reversed, and hidden by modernism, but not abandoned.
The realist lies for advantage. The fantasist lies to give his dreams a flavor of reality.