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| Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Loooooong Beach, Cali
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![]() | In the Shadow of the Yellow Star
I found this to be pretty great. by Ronnie Pontiac, Poet-in-Residence, Newtopia* So what if I laughed when I followed orders?* Law and justice mean different things.* Rules are a concept anyone can understand.* Follow the rules or get punished, understand?* Law is the shadow of justice.* Order is the shadow of truth.* Empires in love with law and order, they say* are always brought down by justice and truth.* As long as I have the freedom to safely order fries* the law is a TV show to lull me to sleep after work* until the news and pharmaceutical commercials* invading my dreams wake me to change the channel.* For-profit private prisons half filled with third strike pot heads* provide cheap labor for corporations* and a steady stock for shareholders* despite numerous escapes and murders.* In the name of peace we scatter depleted uranium* the way Rome sewed salt in the soil of Carthage.* In the name of law we kill local contractors* who won’t give the godfather his percentage.* The Order of the Fraternity of a Dignified Eternity* siphons sweet crude and currencies, circulates guns and drugs,* meticulously performs ritual holiday charities;* officially grateful, ruthlessly brutal, in regard to disparities.* In the name of the law they say a certain man would stand* at the entrance gate deciding which lost soul plucked* from some innocuous but treasured life would burn,* begging the question can heaven resemble Auschwitz? |
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