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Cruel and Unusual Punishment

from SEVEN by King Rest

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Only in a looming future
where freedom is obsolete
will crime be all but gone

In the meantime watch the gavel fall
Sentencing to death
those we collectively condemn

The mob has ruled you die
Walking back platitudes on the sanctity of life

One more juridical miscarriage
Euthanized at their discretion

Brittle pamphlet
Blown into the breeze like a dandelion tuft
Obtuse interpretations are a strategem
to spit on it from both sides of the mouth
Frothing at the thought of killing you

Cunning workarounds
that are baked into coded language
Primed to plausibly deny
what's been done all throughout the ages

The tiniest margin of error ought to halt the effort
but sometimes someone simply must be made an example of

Cruel and Unusual
Well past that brink in any honest reading
Insert superstitions until it's legitimacy is lost
Is the piety worth the cost
to let The Word hijack the law?

It's only oppressive to those who may disagree
If God is on our side then how unjust can it be?

The tiniest margin of error ought to halt the effort
but sometimes someone simply must be made an example of

This mighty flex may split the suture
that's held this flesh together for so long a time
Dangerous bet to place one's money on
The risk and the reward
Well, they must really like their odds

That dystopia is nigh
Dressed in tricolored flags
and bisecting lines

Have you seven things to say?
Another victim of the state

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from SEVEN, released January 6, 2023

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