liberty

to speak aloud what's better left unsaid
if not the law, still violates good taste
the snarky monologue inside your head
corrodes society when aired in haste
the penal code can only stake the lines
but ethics have to rule on what's inside
the law's too blunt a tool to make such fine
discriminations with a brush so wide
no legislature can prescribe what's good
while leaving citizens to live lives free
it lays out what one can't, not what one should
or risks devolving into tyranny
Free Speech is guaranteed because it's dear
yet what it means is anything but clear