To the People Who Presumably Work for the People, aka the Congressional contingent of the United States of America. Google puts it this way: "Congress, as established by Article I of the Constitution, is tasked with representing the people, making federal laws, and overseeing the executive branch. Its core responsibilities to citizens include levying taxes for the general welfare, regulating interstate commerce, declaring war, coining money, and protecting individual rights through legislation." I speak to my concern, but hear there are many, many, many.
I was merely one
being undone
and having been
preyed upon.
It seems to me there are
several missing federal laws—
and don't get me started
on your oversight of oversight,
Not to mention failure
to protect individual rights
(or other than your own).
Anyway, I digress. My duress
Has to do with rampant
irresponsibility when
it comes to children,
who were not and are not protected.
Your blatant dysfunction,
looking the other way at "commerce"
made of human beings,
beautiful ones most vulnerable
I cannot overstate.
All the interstate and intrastate
denial of values
you say you stand for will be the fall
of nation under God.
Or have you forgotten too that part?
Part by part by part by
Part, I have overcome tyranny
Thrust upon me perhaps
nefariously with consent
of others. You too must
see error and make course correction.
And there are many more.
Three-lettered covers notwithstanding
you took oath to support,
to defend, without reservation.
And you have promised to
defend against ALL enemies—not
merely ones that threaten
your family or your bank account.
Foreign or domestic,
such enemies that threaten the State,
include the rotting root:
unacknowledged harm to innocence.
I was merely one
being undone
and having been
preyed upon.
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