The Three R's

The three R’s of education begin
with reading ‘riting and Ritalin.
Children are labeled mentally ill 
because they fidget and won’t sit still.

Normal actions diagnosed to be
the symptoms of ADHD,
so psycho pharmacy can push a pill
to cure psychiatry’s invented ill.

You’re targeted from your infancy
to develop drug dependencies. 
And spend your life consuming pills
medicating invented ills.

Drugs are poisons with side effects 
that alter mechanisms of intellect
with substances that are known to be 
toxic to your brain chemistry.         

Minds cannot withstand the strain
of mans assault upon the brain,
and those minds can explode
into psychotic episodes.

You may find yourself in killer mode
from a demon circuit overload,
in a classroom full of dead
and a gun held up to your head.
 
The machineries of a nation run
on the intellect of its population.
Drug a populations intellect
and it will become derelict.

A population of addicts
living day to day, fix to fix,
dwindling down pill by pill
until that nation’s pulse is still.

Copyright © | Year Posted 2016



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Date: 9/16/2016 6:09:00 PM
You hit a nerve with me John - i used to work in a school - some of the students with adhd were on ritalin and by golly you could tell if they hadn't had their daily dose :-( hugs Jan xx
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John Wilowski
Date: 9/16/2016 8:33:00 PM
Yes Jan, what a sad subject.
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