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Caesar Has No Authority Over The Grammarians

Caesar Has No Authority Over The Grammarians

(Caesar non supra grammaticos)

 

 

I am licensed to drive.

I am licensed to broke.

I am licensed to be birthed.

I am licensed to marry, divorce and someday I will be

coroner-permission"end" to die.

 

If I so choose, I can be state approved to cut your hair,

have my own business, weld, own a dog, panhandle, play tennis in Central Park, dance in my own cabaret, even commit suicide legally.

 

These United States were a refuge for my foreign born parents,

 

Bless you both for privileging me such,

you gifted me a country where my voice, clear and unashamedly,

unguarded can speak here unafraid, for our

Caesar has no authority over the grammarians.

Tho the IRS gonna come after me, and king phony Barack,

Gonna eavesdrop on my privacy,

 

As long as I can write my poetry free and clear, untaxed,

won't ever mortgage my soul to any government hack

I will carry my U.S. passport in my left pocket over my heart,

Till they take my freedom to speak away.

 

Then I will get a gun for free speech is worth dying for...

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Written by
nat-lipstadt
99 / M / NYC/Lippstadt/Kraków
Published
Aug 21, 2013
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Notes

Another oldie I found in the sewing box where I keep my poetry, my freedom to speak and my gun.

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