Public-Address
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Public-Address


Tuesday morning, riding past
a high school on the morning wind
I heard announcements, North-Korea-loud
blare out declaring “Crossing Boundaries”
its inmates’ Wednesday theme.

Students would, it ordered, “voluntarily”
sit at unaccustomed tables in
the cafeteria and talk with people
other than their friends.

No doubt there will as well
be harangues about the invalidity
of circumscribing borders separating
people who are really all alike

while in the cafeteria thugs trespass,
leering twenty-something “unaccompanied
minors” who lied about their age as well
as how they got tattooed and narco-ganged
under watchful, unforgiving eyes of monitors
for whom the only sin lies in rejecting them.

Edit added hyphen in "North-Korea".

Free verse seems to be the form for political poetry...

But a world of folly, where issues like this are subject to politics instead of law!
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Public-Address - by dukealien - 10-30-2016, 07:09 AM
RE: Public-Address - by rayheinrich - 10-30-2016, 05:36 PM
RE: Public-Address - by dukealien - 10-31-2016, 11:10 PM
RE: Public-Address - by rayheinrich - 11-01-2016, 05:53 PM
RE: Public-Address - by dukealien - 11-02-2016, 10:57 PM
RE: Public-Address - by rayheinrich - 11-04-2016, 04:44 PM



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