To deny the written word,

to seek to erase words

that might offend

is as criminal

as the act in which they were used

to demonise in the first place;

not only in Virginia it seems

can a word see a book banned

from being taught

but why stop there, lets place a prohibition

upon all literature,

all words,

give them a life sentence

for in the beginning

was the word

and now that word

is mute.

Ian D. Hall 2016