Sunday, March 3, 2024

No One Keeps a Diary Anymore - poem

 

Lawrence Hall, HSG

Mhall46184@aol.com

 

No One Keeps a Diary Anymore

 

 

Which is better — to be ruled by one tyrant three thousand miles away or by three thousand tyrants one mile away?

 

– Mather Byles

 

 

No one keeps a diary – life is safer that way

Men have been hanged for what they have written

It may be that they revealed some forgotten crime

Or, worse, that they possessed the gift of thought

 

No one keeps a diary – life is safer that way

The Moms for Liberty are scared of books

Even the diary of a little girl

Because children must not read or write or think

 

No one keeps a diary – life is safer that way -

And have you self-purged your own books today?

 

 

South Carolina school district reviews, returns books after ban attempt (msn.com)

 

The first Mom For Liberty to successfully ban Anne Frank went on an antisemitic livestream - Jewish Telegraphic Agency (jta.org)

 

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