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Book 37 Page 43
Institutionalized force
Institutionalized force,
it comes in many shapes / colors and / sizes.
Always legal is that ‘governmental force,’
with it’s many forms and disguises.
Come to take you away, ha - haaa.
Come to make you obey, ha - haaa.
Come to tell you what to say, ha – haaa, ha – he, ha - haaa!
And when that institutionalized force comes,
all power will be on the ‘government’s side.’
So there’s ganna be no where for you to hide.
For when ‘force’ come, it does not care to argue with you or sympathize.
And so if in the event that you happen to think that you’re ‘in the right,’ /
if you happen to be convinced of your ‘moral plight,’ /
if you happen to think that you have a ‘greater insight,’
then suffer ‘the force’ (that institutionalized force) with all your dignity
and with all your might.
For when ‘force’ comes, remember! it will take what it wants,
or it will take you to jail or if your very unlucky,
it will take your life.
© Written by Dominic John Gill www.poetry.net.au dominicj7@poetry.net.au Created on 11/21/00