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2020 Poems

Abridged

1)
Free Speech
1st right.
Obligation
To complain.
No obligation
To be civil.
Yet, one
Does not
Have
FREE SPEECH
Unless one has
A complaint.
So, to say
That which
You complain
About has
NO PLACE
in America
Is to say
That you
Will have
Nothing
To say
Without it.

2)
Abridge —
To cut
Short,
Deprive of
Your right
To complain.
Censorship;
Now an open
Capacity
To circulate
Lies. No one
Stopping
The UnTruths.
Weaponized
Propaganda
Aimed to
Invigorate
Hate.
The end of
Civility.
Civic
Discourse
Denied. Silos
Of voice
Contained.

By Makar

Stephen Sutherlin is a designer, poet and musician. He writes poetry about life in the southwest and enjoys metrical lyricism.

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