Jailbreak

Jailbreak

A Poem by Pete
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In an unjust society the only place for a just man is prison. - Thoreau

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A Jailbreak of the Imagination: Seeing ...

i'm busting in
i just wanna be scott free
don't try to stop me



© 2025 Pete


Author's Note

Pete
"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

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Added on October 18, 2025
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Pete
Pete

Boston, MA



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I love reading, writing, music, nature, God and feeling emotion, not necessarily in that order. To me, these things go hand in hand. My favorite writer is Henry David Thoreau. I think he was a geni.. more..