Date Published: December 27, 2025
Lies and Games is a collection about what men learn to hide and how that
hiding becomes habit. Written from lived experience, these poems explore
attraction, silence, and the tension between wanting closeness and fearing it.
The poems documents moments and the cost of staying guarded. This book
captures the journey of becoming with all the confusion and broken edges that
come with it. This is not a love story. It’s what happens around one.
About the Author
A New Yorker by identity, R.R. King learned to live with armor, both literally
and figuratively. Known for discipline and presence whose life demanded
strength before vulnerability. He spent years building a life defined by
control and resilience, but poetry came from the moments when that armor
slipped. Lies and Games documents a masculine unraveling. His writing speaks
to the experience of standing in a full room and still feeling alone and
exploring his adulthood through trials and errors.
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