Poem: Shutdowns

Shutdowns:

Shutdowns shutdown dignity.
Shutdowns shutdown freedom of assembly.

Shutdowns shut down all sizes of economy.
Shutdowns shutdown our freedom of expression, some fear, for government repression.


Shut down, Shutdowns!-
Heard daily, nationally.


-Cap Black

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