Words for citizens

What was the day

when was the time

poets divined

not to sing in rhyme

but legalese?

My professor said

everyone dead

sent copy

to all the other dead

So that it could be said,

"There’s a poet".

'Freedom is only truly freedom

when it appears against the background

of an artificial limitation'

And this nation is only a nation

when it bears no relation

to the above said dead.

Here’s to the artificial limitation

that brings us a nation

and a day that sings again

and a  time that poets rhyme.

Here’s to rhyme again; there

is no escape from rhyme

till in time poets

command

the words for citizens.

6/27/09