WHAT THEY TELL US!

POETRY BY: JOSEPH MAXWELL SPENCER

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They tell us,

The pen is mightier than the sword.

But I ask,

What if the pen is without ink,

and the sword remain sharp as a razor?

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They tell us,

Immigration perpetuates healthy society.

But I ask,

what if migration becomes,

the source of indignity?

……………….

They tell us,

Insanity is the error of reasoning.

But I ask,

What if the reasoning of sanity,

were an absurd folly?

……………….

They tell us,

Prisons are overpopulated.

But I ask,

What if it were the population,

that were being over-imprisoned?

……………….

They tell us,

The head is the object of reason.

But I ask,

What if the head that will,

become a skull is already empty?

……………….

They tell us,

History is an objective fact.

But I ask,

What if the objective fact has been,

discontinuous and displaced in history?

……………….

They tell us,

Justice is for the oppressed creature.

But I ask,

What if justice has been something,

done to the powerful and for the rich?

……………….

They tell us,

Punishment must fit the crime.

But I ask,

What if crime is without illusions,

and punishment is becoming disillusioned?

……………….

They tell us,

To leave our troubled past behind.

But I ask,

What if the past,

simply doesn’t left us?

……………….

They tell us,

The world is overpopulated.

But I ask,

What if it’s the population,

Simply fused together in small spaces?

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They tell us,

Humans are equal.

But I ask,

What if I broadly accuse,

the human race of social inequality?

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