There  are times when speaking
Your mind draws thoughtless
Applause, whatever be your cause.
In such circumstance, words
Are not difficult to find.
All that, as we know now, leads
To a deleterious loosening
Of character, undermining
The sacred nation from below.
Deeply, deeply culpable are regimes
That encourage such collective
Laxity. Blessed are we in
A new dispensation that tirelessly
Teaches all but its own how
To hold the tongue in discipline.
After decades of polyvalent fraction,
The realm is on course correction.
Only those may cavil and groan
Who needlessly choose to have
A mind of their own. God did not
Give us the gift of expression
For critical babbling; rather for
Responsible nationalism and
Ennobling tactical repression.
Here is what incorrigible freaks
Need to ponder: how little god,
Who may speak all, actually speaks.

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