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Gag Order
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"I am not here to fight but just to write / I have plenty of troubles of my own"


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Gag Order

"From politics it was an easy step to silence." - Jane Austen (1775-1817) British Novelist

I must try to be funny no more
All here is anger trouble and war
I make the conservatives furious
But find their hostility curious
They detest questions but I have one
Thus new persecution is begun:

If everything is awful
Does that make it unlawful
To have a sense of humor
And must you start a rumor
That I am just a terrible man
Attacking me as only you can
Whisper and gossip defame and smear
When all I sought was to bring some cheer?

But I should know better than to ask a question
Here at the end of the age now we laugh no more
The only thing they hate more is a suggestion
Like perhaps they might have been wrong about the war

I am not here to fight but just to write
I have plenty of troubles of my own
The might of the right makes them always right
Rule the world then! But please: leave me alone

+Steven Curtis Lance



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 Reviews of "Gag Order"
Reviewed by Regis Auffray
Reviewed on August 4, 2005
A legitimate request, Stevie. Me. I've not seen any of your "stuff" as "offensive" in any way. But I gave up on politics a long time ago. That "black hole" can take care of itself as far as I am concerned. Love and peace.

Regis

Reviewed by Tinka Boukes
Reviewed on August 4, 2005
Me not into politics....so let them do their thingy and just leave me the hell out of it aswell!!

Love Tinka

Reviewed by Felix Perry
Reviewed on August 4, 2005
Ah steve as writers and poets this will always be our payment for writing the way of the world. We need to learn to let it roll.

Felix


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