when people
were murdered
needlessly
there was
a brief
outcry
for justice
how could
anyone
accept
a vigilante inflicted
death penalty
for
merely drinking
from
freedom’s well
people
were so angry
for a while
but
when
it was pointed out
to
the gathering
crowds
that the well
holds
a forbidden sacrament
not
to be imparted
to
just anyone
according
to
our
founding fathers
only
the children
of
leukothea
are
permitted
to
drink from the well
and
with those words
as if endowed
with a blessing
the crowd
dispersed
singing
the national anthem
and
that old standard
this land is my land
private property
the grave they’ve prepared for you is the same one as your forefathers’ your bones will cover their bones beneath you will lie rusted shackles and scorched flesh the dried petals of freedom’s promise are now just compost softening the earth for your arrival
long term detention centers have been established in both urban and rural areas to facilitate availability of cheap labor for our corporate and community job release programs these expansions have resulted in the necessity for additional security services for patrolling penal colonies and periodically reminding inmates via random stops searches and seizure of their existence that they don’t have voting rights as for those prisoners living outside the prison confines and firmly established in viable work furlough programs let me assure you that they are subject to the same prison system security procedures to insure compliance with our concept of social confinement even when living outside america’s ghettos and poverty rich communities
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