Category Archives: poem, poetry, free speech

BECAUSE

“if we don’t have
free speech we
have nothing”
    Glenn Greenwald

because
a shard hit you

standing in the wrong
place at the
wrong time

you want to stop
conflict, you want
to stop history
you imsist
on bringing to
a close
truly meaningful time

and you wheel out
your experts on
human pain and
sensitivity
to give us a
sickly-sweet
addictive narrative

which
   will kill
the idea

bring to a close
all forward trajectory
breaking the stranglehold
of elites
   and rebirth of humankind