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Recorded Reading (1:04): https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/4quskjxtd0q9da2endken/NDA-Not-Okay.mp3?rlkey=vr0jv921r3hlal0ay88qhr0ki&st=p744bj8q&dl=0

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NDA Not Okay

Trouble telling right from wrong?
Go along to get along?
Say one thing and do another,
My poor obfuscating brother?

Okay with the status quo?
Left hands don’t the right hands know?
Memorize that secret handshake
Someone else’s back to break?

Promised your assistance
Without moral resistance
Nor the conscience’s sharp edge ~
After all, you took a pledge?

Think that over all this land,
Under the hat, behind the hand
Fear and silence ought to be
The condition of the “free”?

To your own descendents shout it
Sister, don’t tell me about it
I’m the last person today
Who hasn’t signed an NDA

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