Prison Sentences

Rape

Beat

Kill

Four letter words that happen in

Jail

Packed in like sardines in a can

While trying to fix what is wrong with society

Trapped in cages like battered animals

We boast about

Freedom

Equality

Happiness

Resulting in undocumented torture on our own soil

Happening to our citizens every day

Discrimination

Hatred

Mistreatment

We boast about 

Change

Revolution

Advances

Resulting in the barbaric treatment of our own people

A change is what we need

While our pleas are responded with

Longer prison sentences 

 

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