What it is

June 2010: In a desperate attempt to stave off senility, the monkey began writing a poem a day. By summer's end he'd begun to run out of versified political rants and philosophical bloviations. Then he hit on the improbable idea of writing micro fiction in the form of Elizabethan sonnets. Eureka. The birth of the "Sonnets From Other Lives" series. Two hundred plus lives later, he's still at it.

Saturday, February 18, 2012

Welcome to the New Religious Freedom.
While Freedom of Religion 1.0
concerned itself with practicing ones creed
independent of state interference,
this new iteration’s main concern
is the freedom to impose restrictions
on those who may not necessarily
agree with one’s deeply held convictions.
i.e. the freedom to restrict their right to marry,
or the freedom to withhold contraception,
or the freedom to force women to carry
fetuses to term, (even at the cost of their own lives).
Who knew that Freedom meant the imposition
of another’s will on the unwilling?
One's position is by definition weak
if it must be couched in such Orwellian Newspeak.

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