When Being Told And Not Seeing Is Believing

I would have been in my thirties
when I first recognised the nature
of one peculiar modern narrative
furnished by different branches
of the many governments in the world
at the time. In this narrative, a branch
of government we were not meant know
existed does something where all proof
that the deed was done exist solely in the denial of the deed.

In this narrative the public are told
about some event that could have happened,
but due to the actions of the government agency
we are not allowed to ask about, the event
never did happen and the lack of evidence
is due to both the secretive government agency
thwarting the event and how, because of the event
being thwarted, there is now no evidence
of what was stopped from happening, happening.

The 2020's version of this non-news news
is some publicity hungry popular entertainer
'coming out' as having survived some peculiar drama,
where some minor symptom of the drama
left them with minor trauma, after which
there was some minor hurt, but talk about it
on chat shows on light entertainment television
has done wonders for their public recognition. .