Ode to Free Speech

Today you die,
When Yellow Journalism was outlawed.
Poets could not eat from their wisdom
For the common lay had censored.
Facts are engineered for public manipulation.
Do not challenge them, because of offense.
Jesus does not exist---
Do not even mention Him.
“I will make a fact check
“And cite a lie and make it true.
“I will outright lie, and call it fact,
“And make the world believe it.
The Yellow Journalist was sued
For his outlandish claims---
The other Yellow Journalists cried out with joy
Until they no more could speak.

Silence. It is best if you keep silence in this time.
For truth is outlawed, and persuasion a crime.