Cracked and Raving

I am a liar
and a thief.
The village idiot
pate topped
with stolen graduate
gown and mortarboard.
The spineless confidence man
with the purloined monocle.
I medicine show
through cane stalk
fields of sleeping people
desperate to buy
disbelief.
I am the stain
on the mark.
The smear
on sidewalk;
cracked and raving,
split in exponents,
and buying
everything I'm selling.