Ulterior motives? I wouldn't! I think
Despicable anyone trying to fool!
The truth is a tonic, the healthiest drink:
Avoiding it opens a path to misrule!

I've spent the semester in beatings at school
By classmates for airing their fraudulent stink.
My efforts at honesty bloodied my stool.
Ulterior motives? I wouldn't! I think...

Revenge for my treatment? Perhaps it's a chink
In armor that's otherwise polished and cool.
But liars deserve to be thrown in the clink,
Despicable anyone trying to fool!

Preparing the pie, I consulted a ghoul
Acquaintance who gave me a mixture of skink
And wolfsbane. I called it "a taste of old Yule."
The truth is a tonic, the healthiest drink.

For wintery sacrifice offers a link
Historic and accurate. None but a mule
Denies it, recounted on paper with ink.
Avoiding it opens a path to misrule.

In candor, I told them the pie was a tool
Appeasing the spirits. They spared it a blink,
Then gobbled the stuff till they started to drool,
Collapsing. I'd never connivingly slink!
Ulterior motives...