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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