it is said
the freedom fee is $800
but just as we are free to speak
they are free not to hear, after all
earplugs are only $2
surgery studios are soundproof anyways
their fair faces stare into cameras
mumbling free fair care
for all, forever
white-wash gloss
on a blood-red cross
whatever he meant
the baby-holding fee still holds.
tell it to the
dad who sold his
dad's house for his bionic knee
the children begging for their lives
on go fund me
the girl who'll never forgive her friend for
calling the ambulance
(it just cost her the college fund)