Is This What You Wanted
Poetry is activism/Penned in prison/Gleaned from prisms/I been in this system/Where the scene is livid/Pedophiles, thieves/Fiends and killers/It seems forgiveness/Is a religious construct/The Dept. of Justice/Has departed from adjusting us
I'm not the only one
Who has been in since adolescence
What kind of lesson
Is learned from
Half a century of oppression?
Is this the system you wanted?/Mass incarceration/Is this a confirmation/Every Time you elect/A tough on crime politician/Every Time they build another prison/I understand crime and punishment/But not the money spent/I'm not a Republican/But what happened/To conservative gov't?
Cleverly abbreviated
The populace inebriated
On prescription pills
Social media and feeding hatred
Is this what you wanted?
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