When was there an ask for an ask
Sounds like an ear for an ear
A lectern is here
I will read
Emphasis yours
Such are the conditions
Of this free speech
Duress, noisy suppression
Taken from an unwilling mouth
Under terms unfavorable
To the soul's freedom
Metaphors be damned
I will only tell it like it is
For the seventeenth circle of hypocrisy
Is reserved for the devil's forked tongue
According to the goods' book
Writers of language get to define it
So dichotomies are as untrustworthy
As this task to which I'm assigned
Roman Ryan 