In God We Trust?

When the true criminals are running around free, the only honorable place for a decent human being is in prisons. - Thoreau

lock me up

throw away the key

there's nothing you can take from me

what i value most are the things that no eye can see

things that don't open or start with a key

things that are only uttered 'pon bended knee

things crossed in three

so go ahead

do whatever you like with me

we don't have to agree

but make no mistake about it

i know what it is to be truly free

to have an epiphany

for happiness not to be left up to serendipity

shackles may rust

people may cuss

the country can go bust

ashes to ashes and dust to dust

in god we trust

Author's Note

"The preachers and lecturers deal with men of straw, as they are men of straw themselves. Why, a free-spoken man, of sound lungs, cannot draw a long breath without causing your rotten institutions to come toppling down by the vacuum he makes. Your church is a baby-house made of blocks, and so of the state....The church, the state, the school, the magazine, think they are liberal and free! It is the freedom of a prison-yard." - Thoreau