0215 Name The Devil And... Poem by Michael Shepherd
0215 Name The Devil And...
Rating: ★2.1
How long?
how long before the measures
put in place by the state
'for our protection'
become the apparatus
of a repressive and
totalitarian state?
'Oh it can't happen here, we're a free country'...
but children never know the experience of
their parents' lost inner freedoms of the mind.
How long?
Start counting
Thursday, December 29, 2005
Topic(s) of this poem: parents
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8/14/2026 4:05:30 PM # rel_20260813T193622Z_3aad590
Excellent piece Michael, containing enough menacing undertone to force the question. I always thought that poetry can be a strong form for propaganda, but few poets suceed (influence of Soviet Social realism still prevails) . This succeeds well.