Is Net Neutrality Just A Failing Fairytale?

A Failing Fairytale

by Rachel Hoyt

Image by cuteimage via freedigitalphotos.net

Once upon a time

Nothing changed on a dime

Because we couldn't hear

Or see the things not near.

We hardly knew the way

Others lived day to day

And rarely saw a view

Our shoes could not walk to.

Then one day, like a dream,

There came a way to beam

Data through outer space

To a digital place.

We knew not how it flew

Or burrowed its way to

Our screens, but we embraced

Sharing this neutral space.

Now he who plugged us in

Wants bribes or he will thin

Our vision, slow the speed,

Infuse neutral with greed.

We know that he will hide

The voices that abide

In cracks quite hard to find

And control poor great minds.

Copyright © 2014 Rachel Hoyt. All rights reserved.

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A Poetic Tale Inspired By Recent SCOTUS Rulings

Painting a Fairytale

by Rachel Hoyt

 

image by Master isolated images via freedigitalphotos.net

 

 

Monochrome City

liked things black & white -

sleeping while sunny

then waking at night,

the weak vs. the mighty,

clear cut wrongs and rights -

No rainbow shade could be

a part of its sights.

Rainbow Town, nearby,

liked things bright and bold -

the sun in the sky

shining bright as gold,

kindness for free,

even gross green mold -

Black & white you might see,

though rarely, I'm told.

 

The Rainbow Town folks

worked in Monochrome,

dyeing all the Oaks

to match the big homes,

wishing they could coax

their way in as gnomes -

Then one day city folk

awoke while they roamed.

 

Monochrome City

quickly divided

over the beauty

nature provided,

what makes things pretty,

and what is two-sided -

Rainbow folks roamed free

and moved in when guided.

 

All colors lived in

semi-harmony

until their young kin

could no longer see

where colors begin

and who serves the tea -

Longing for what had been,

they produced a decree:

 

"Monochrome City

must be black & white

and so I, sadly,

declare here tonight:

Rainbows will soon be

painted out of sight.

If they move out quickly,

they can keep daylight."

 

© 2013 Rachel Hoyt. All rights reserved.

 

 

Inspired by recent threats to Affirmative Action and voters' rights,

this rhyme describes a town with dreamy, backward sights.

 

 

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