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~An Elegy for Liberty~

by Duncan Cary Palmer

While headed for the boneyard

To sit and mourn a while,

I took thought to remark my world

So changed from when a child!

Signs announcing strictures

Oppress like some disease.

The stench of propaganda

Is wafted on the breeze.

War on this and war on that,

Designed to terrify,

Curdle all volition

Until none dare ask why.

Chartered "To Protect and Serve,"

A citizen's best friend,

"Law Enforcement" now the beat

The task, to apprehend.

Choose between a leafy weed

Or thousand dollar pill?

Procure a shaman's signature;

Bend to the tyrant's will.

Purple mountains, amber grain,

The dirge eclipses truth

While legislators' pens bleed 'laws'

To fetter us forsooth.

Ivory tower geniuses

Wield complex arguments.

Obscurantists with PhDs

Befuddle with intent.

"Quantitative easing."

"Your fair share," "Do your part."

Talking heads have turned deception

Into a high art.

Call them not "sheep," that noble beast

Whose name should not belong

To whom from puppet media

Receive their Weltanschauung

Zombie ignoramuses

Demand our guns and bread,

Incognizant their excesses

Our revenue have bled.

Who then would slaughter Liberty

As Jacob by Esau?

'Tis you who venerate the State,

So red in tooth and claw.

Now that I've come upon the site

Of Liberty's last breath,

I'll sit here on the ground and tell

Sad stories of her death.

~FIN~