2021-12-15 there is no penalty for poets

/ht @chowleen:

In our period, they say there is free speech.  
They say there is no penalty for poets.  
There is no penalty for writing poems.  
They say this.        This is the penalty.

-Muriel Rukeyser, “In Our Time”

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