Censorship by the Proletariat - doggerel

 

 

Lawrence Hall

Mhall46184@aol.com 

https://hellopoetry.com/lawrence-hall/

poeticdrivel.blogspot.com

 

Censorship by the Proletariat

 

There is a topic in the news today

Most worthy of a throw-away line

But in our cultural lockdown there is no way

To share a joke, however benign

Censorship Sends us to Literature - poem

Lawrence Hall
mhall46184@aol.com
poeticdrivel.blogspot.com

Censorship Sends us to Literature

Those poor oppressors – oh, how sad they are!
They cut and paste our words to match their scripts
They make books disappear from the GossipNet
They empty libraries of toxic texts

And yet

Ahkmatova and Solzhenitsyn live
With Pasternak and Thomas Mann, Remarque
Proust, Werfel, Hesse, Grossman, and Milosz
On shelves, in hands, before our grateful eyes

Oppression makes the game more interesting
Because it leads us to great works of art