[Newspoetry] Editor's Culls CopyRight Lulls [a Texan drool and drawl implied]

[Donald L Emerick]

Be-Moaning for a CopyRight

Altruism is never enough
Says a dogma of selfish greed
To meet inchoate social need
For creating, inventing stuff.

They hold that an inquiring mind
Would work only for some pleasure
To be found in piles of treasure
And not for any joy, refined.

Shocking to them, too, are manners
Of civility and dignity,
Of deified humanity,
Sans slogans on crossing banners.

Protect any right to profit;
An idea just labors, idle --
Love's labor is lost sans bridle.
Copyright or else get off it.

Created free, but owned forever:
An idea increases slavery,
Puts people under knavery,
Jacks a world off on its lever.

Property always has its chains
Stretching across open highways,
Forcing progress into byways
That flush our lives down bank drains.

Copywrong: if you love, love me --
Two is but one twice gone away
Turning vicious circles for play.
Copywrong: if you move, move me.

"How could you be so large, to own
An idea of wondrous nature?
How come you to such inflature?"
A world so full of you does moan.

Thanks for listening,
Donald L Emerick