The Centralizers

[F L Light]

1

They’d make the fifty states one database

For Washington who’d local votes displace.

2

They’d make the local publics of all states

A centralized domain in D.C straits.

3

A barren interference Washington

Provides, not leaving life to number one.

4

In centralized presumption socialists

Displace your destiny to fill their lists.

5

A barren interference Washington

Obtrudes, as laissez-faire is left undone.

6

In centralized presumption socialists

Leave private life to public analysts.

7

A barren interference evermore

Is overbearing overmuch like war.

8

A populace, enmeshed amiss, permits

The government to meddle with their wits.

9

A barren interference in effect

Is overbearing, overmuch unchecked.

10

In Washington, to the inflated height

Of fatuous highness, fulsome laws seem right.

11

A barren interference they enforce,

Believing life a centralized resource.

12

The centralizers comprehensively

Too central grow, contracting liberty.

13

The centralizers would comprise our scope

And with expansive independence cope.

14

The centralizers harder closures make,

Not letting us a broader compass take.

15

Coercive errors centralize the state

Amid committees in constraint of fate.

16

Centripetally crushed by centralized

Departments, freedom is unauthorized.

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8

A populace, enmeshed amiss, permits

The government to meddle with their wits.

Do we get to vote for favorite lines?

These are mine.

[F L Light]

I was not content with # 8 and here enclose two variations on that couplet.

En masse bemused, enmeshed amiss, mankind

To central subjugation is confined

Concentered much, in meshes shaped, the folk

May not divergent pulchritude evoke.

Edited August 18, 2006 by F L Light