Freedom Of Surveillance

Think of a contemporary subject and how you would use the ballad form to give voice to it. What you would write about, and how you would use the ballad form to do that? Originally published February 2023

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peace, the right to privacy

the right to be forgotten to our own deficency

ruled to be misgotten

to decay in your room

without deep packet inspections our gathering doom

going in all the wrong directions

i live my life in paranoia

lying on the floor

it's him i'm trying to avoid

escaping through the backdoor

not by choice nor by plan

purely by our own insistence

we all fear the crooked man

that's ruling our existence