Sunday, 29 March 2020

THE RIGHT TO SPEAK OUT FREELY

CORPSEWORDS

don't even think it

you shouldn't say that

you shouldn't write that

you cannot publish that

we've heard all that
Joyce & Ulysses
packaged in plain brown
paper in plain sight
defied America & Comstock
and words found a way
to remain to this day

killers are still out there
words can fall like confetti
without any pity
at a ‘shotgun wedding’
banishing hope & freedom
to the ‘petit-coat’ fringes

my words our words
killed by closed minds

we mean no harm
offer no violence
label no-one

a view-point expressed
not to be suppressed
a right to be free
with words to speak
out as others cannot
as freedom is only on
this side of the wall

freedom
not a fiefdom
for a few words

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