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catandgirl@socel.net ("Cat and Girl") wrote:

Oops! All Prisons

Cat, a medieval bard playing a lute: Power is a prison Girl, a crusading knight: We're afraid we'll face a moral challenge and be found wanting / Cat: Wealth is a prison Girl: The richest among us have already lost / They approach a dragon guarding a treasure chest. Cat: Status is a prison Girl: Owning the most makes them the weakest / Girl swings her sword at the dragon. Cat: Respectability - class norms - are prisons Girl: They need to defend the systems that granted them success - however small - however meagre / Girl plunges the sword into the dragon's neck, killing it. Girl: All success is a prison Cat: Only the true loser has eyes that see / She carries the treasure chest away. Girl: Prison is also a prison Cat: That's the worst one