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Scratches on the Wall

August 5, 2020 by admin Leave a Comment

SCRATCHES ON THE WALL

OF THE FACEBOOK JAIL
Imprisoned for offending you
With a Google image
I see live people
Writing and chatting
Through this glass cell wall.
I try to write
But you cannot see me
I try to protest
But FB cannot hear me
The coffin is sealed
For three days
like the moon
I have gone dark
_________________
The cruel insensitive
Facebook net
Snatches you off the street
For an offhand word
Or irreverent picture
Your neck rests
In the guillotine’s collar
At any moment
By mere whim
The blade can fall
Facebook Lives Matter
____________________
The ice is thin
And cracking
Every word now
Can be a death sentence
My words used to fly free
Now they stutter
And wonder
Will this offend?
_____________
When did Facebook
Become a Puritan?
When did speech
Become censored?
Like any fundamentalist
The Facebook Censor
Has no appreciation
Of irony
Words taken out of context
Have their reference
On a list of banned items
And not their intended use
The Bible is now literal
And all metaphor is lost
God is dead!
____________
Labeled a Sex Deviant
For posting a woman
With a bondage mask
I protest
I am not the picture
On the box
__________
Ironically
The bondage mask
That offended  you
Has put me in bondage
And gagged my speech
You gave the image
Flesh and blood
Mine!
_____________
The shock
Of being thrown in jail
Was my 9/11
This cannot be happening!
___________
The streets of Facebook
Are now patrolled
By Correctness Police
If you fit their profile
They will drag you off
In silent screams
Your tongue cut off
_________
I will not be silent
I will not be censored
And gagged
I will not be held
In bondage
If only one finger remains
I will speak
__________

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