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Jeff Burkhart’s “Rhyme and Reason”: Flawed Law

July 1, 2018 by Jeff Burkhart Leave a Comment

A law’s designed to stop someone, from doing something wrong
As time goes on the list of laws, continues to grow long

Politicians meet and pass, new edicts every year
To keep us from committing, the behaviors that they fear

Each one has their own platform, made laws they hope to pass
10 or twenty brand new laws, from every bag of gas

The 10 commandments used to be, the basis for it all
To make the people toe the line, and criminals forestall

Now the law concerns itself, with texting and large sodas
Santa Claus and patent law, and things that rile the voters

With so many citizens, observing other’s flaws
In one hundred years we’ll have, a million more damn laws

Jeff Burkhart’s “Rhyme and Reason”

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