Right To Be Me

Even if succeeding you’d be short still of the 

ransom one needs; buying back your freewill 

shouldn’t seem a jaunt in the haunted forest - 

but it feels jinxed doesn’t it - like what’s been 

gratuitously given away has peremptory fees 

affixed for recovery; they’re astronomically & 

ludicrously disproportionate to the trade idea 

presupposing balancing of value for money 

If it was worth nothing how come a desire to 

have it back attracts this value-added indice; 

it’s of no value to anyone but me - or are we 

missing something in its contract’s fine print 

which doesn’t exist except as a corollary for 

which I must pay for idiocy in giving it away

So what do you say to playing a game with 

devil’s-advocacy-freedom to derange rules - 

you attest, I gave it away, now I take it back, 

first place it was mine to assert or debase & 

no-one exchanged money; so there in word  

you heard me asserting my right to be me

©13 November 2015, I. D. Carswell