Prison

Prison walls are porous now, as porous as a sponge;

Cons are spilling out with all their anger and their grunge.

Legislatures everywhere say they cannot afford

To give the convict anything like long-term room and board.

Child molesters, psychopaths, and crooks of every stripe

Are dumped onto the public like some garbage overripe.

If you're charged with littering or backed up child support

You're assigned a jail cell by those idiots in court.

But murderers and others who have served a year or two

Are pushed out of the prison gates with nothing but "adieu".

Budgets cannot handle prison crowding, says the state,

And so the homeless criminal they suddenly create.

If I had my druthers I would fill the prisons full

Of legislators and their staff and all their stinking bull.

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