.         Oh but for a wick,

            a wet nib, a quill

         and the will to write

          that which needs

                to be said.

       But alas, our schools

       of thought are being

        hedged, yet again.

         When freedom is

       forced to hibernate,

    when liberty becomes

      nocturnal, when self

      censorship is a state

   legislation, this is when

creativity becomes coded

contraband then it mutates

into subversive metaphor.