This packs a punch.
It starts slow. The first three lines make the same point three times.
After the first read, I wondered whether first-person served the poem well. Not only is the voice of the poem unreliable, not only does the poem wait until the final line to make clear that that unreliability is intentional (that it isn't the poem itself that the reader should distrust), why, on top of that, project that unreliable voice into the mouths of people who do not believe the things they are saying? On reflection, the convolution feels like a part of experiencing the poem, which isn't meant to be easy. And a third-person voice condemning these people would probably be even more off-putting.
FWIW.
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