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Still Free
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"Life can throw at me what it likes but nothing sticks"

Still Free *I felt unwanted by polite society* *Though I struggled politely to make it better* *Polite society seemed impolite to me* *So I built my own context letter by letter* *And line by line my personal sanctuary* *Of thousands of poems interlocking like bricks* *With walls constructed seamlessly of prosody* *Life can throw at me what it likes but nothing sticks* *My personal society is quite polite* *Graced as it is with specific gentility* *Albeit with a certain eccentricity* *Though it is always autumn here and always night* *The moon is always full the stars shine dazzlingly* *Against the deep blue velvet sky and diamond bright* *The ancient everlasting light by which I see* *And it is all for me and it is quite all right* *Far from the garish glare and incivility* *Of the plastic fantastic unreality* *Of the bloated distended Wal-Mart world out there* *Supersized and hypnotized by lies and madness* *Where most have forgotten what it meant to play fair* *Where antidepressants cannot heal the sadness* *Nor tranquilizers blot out the anxiety* *Of a most impolite polite society* *I will spend my days in solitude with gladness* *Though my democracy is dead I am still free* *+Steven Curtis Lance* *Copyright MMVII*

Reviewed by Carin Spirit

Reviewed on November 3, 2007

This resinates,freedom is requisite,however loneliness is cold.

Reviewed by Lew Duffey

Supersized and hypnotized by lies and madness

Where most have forgotten what it meant to play fair

Where antidepressants cannot heal the sadness

Nor tranquilizers blot out the anxiety

Of a most impolite polite society

Great work. Haven't we all felt it?
God Bless,
Lew

Reviewed by R Beeman

Reviewed on November 2, 2007

great reflection and unique use of words. flows with subtle grace. causes me to introspect my own philosophy of inner freedom.

randy

Reviewed by Charlie

Very well written. I love the way you play with words and their sounds -- all those b's, p's and s's etc... I especially liked your irony in the penultimate stanza, about antidepressants/sadness still; tranquilizers/anxieties still; and I loved the "impolite polite society." Chin up, though. Democracy's not dead. It's just taking a snooze. One, Two, Three: Let's all hit that button together, ready? GO!!! --Charlie

Reviewed by Rebecca Lerwill

~Supersized and hypnotized~ I think that said it all! Very well done, Steven. I admire the depth!
Rebecca~