Net Neutrality
(after Bertolt Brecht)
when the corporate masters created algorithms
to filter out fake news anything those
dicks in dc don’t want us to know
an old poet with work appearing
in various magazines & anthologies flew off
on angry wings to tweet
don’t do this to me haven’t I spoken out
against tyranny & torture witnessed inequality
reported same yet now I’m bound
together with the staple
of unhinged fear-
mongers who babble baseless
conspiracy theories about the mad monk ras-
putin hacking our electoral
then electrical system
who cite without contrition anonymous
sources warning that while we sleep china schemes &
who market freely the everchanging face
of the enemy to mask the truth
as in a pandemic but haven’t I shown repeatedly
with pointed facts here & finger there
proof enough that I’m unlike them & still
you wrong me most grievously
I demand you censor me