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- The Appendage Police
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- Barrett Wolf
This piece is a commentary in first person on censorship and the sense that we are all controlled by forces that seek to limit our freedom and our choices. Reminicent of the work done by eastern european underground artists during the heyday of communist repression.
Think sixties and seventies Czech or Pole...
Biker Poetry from J. Barrett Wolf, member of the Highway Poets Motor Cycle Club, the International Association of Published Bikers.
From his CD "Bitchslapped by the Muse",
©2005 Tannery Road Productions
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This piece is a commentary in first person on censorship and the sense that we are all controlled by forces that seek to limit our freedom and our choices. Reminicent of the work done by eastern european underground artists during the heyday of communist repression. Think sixties and seventies Czech or Pole... Biker Poetry from J. Barrett Wolf, member of the Highway Poets Motor Cycle Club, the International Association of Published Bikers. From his CD "Bitchslapped by the Muse", ©2005 Tannery Road Productions
Transcript
The Appendage Police
The appendage police came the other day and threatened to confiscate my hands.
They said I was writing subversive songs and anti-status-quo articles and screw-the-system poetry. They told me to straighten up and fly right 'cause after all, they knew what was good for me and how would I like to go around with no hands to write or eat or touch with?
Later the brain police arrived and told me to stop having subversive, anti-status-quo, screw-the-system thoughts. They offered me an all expense paid surgical procedure that would help me fit in with the rest of their designer world.
"Just wait," they said, "If you don't come around, you'll be sorry ... We can adjust those little gray cells of yours and you'll be just fine."
After that, the emotion police showed up and suggested (very strongly) that I stop caring about war and poverty and spirituality and m...
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