DM Babbit Poet Rhyme

On the Edges of Reason Wondering

What provides comedians the gift of speech 
 uncensored with lessons that teach?
Their  open mindedness  provoking ease
 undeterred to speak as they please.

How easily the comedic commentary flows
 to places  typical populace dare not go
 and those few who do
 too easily are declared hatred  spewed.

I cannot judge, it is not my place
  and it stares me in the face.
that history can be lost 
  at freedoms repeated cost.

Today there are so many points off limits
 words not to say in any scrimmage;
should they slip out no matter how you pretend
 they are deemed words none dare defend;
unless -
  race, gender or personage might use them
  it's understood, they are free to abuse them.

I'm not prejudiced, no, really I'm not
 but every now and then I have to question saying 
WHAT? - 
 some random thought  emerges
 with a hint of deceptive questioning surges
Can't I reason and ponder
 without  fear I am on the brink
 of vocalizing what I might think.

Comedic relief displays,
 the hidden prejudice revealed in wordplay;
 for blacks to say the N word is okay and accepted
 but for the whites it is hatred protected;
while LBGT communities seek unity
 others are not allowed displeasured scrutiny;
your religion is blind faith for Muslim and Jew
 should you practice in this state if it's not my view?
how often is it true
 that what we say is not what we always do.

Indeed, there are those
 who speak hatred in their prose
 but not everyone is afraid
 to say that freedom is a sharpened blade.

Freedom of speech, the right to bear arms,
Freedom of religion without harm;
 the Bill of Rights fought and well payed
 too easily fades away on the paper frayed.



George Carlin revealed it all so well
 surely those thoughts and images, could not send us all to hell.
  
  “If it’s true that our species is alone in the universe, 
    then I’d have to say that the universe aimed rather low 
    and settled for very little.”

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