That's Right

while we still have rights to our reproduction
and in the brief time before blacklists
fourteen pitiless lines from prison
i just want a damned job
and something to work for
someone to write home about
it's true, lurking in cold war mind
is the stuff of serial killers in hollywood
that's right, i'm discussing fictive fears
in ten words or less in every eleventh frame
the truth at last about the state
in the hands of my jailers
books of crimes of the century
not one of them a lie