<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="margin: 0in;" class="">How Does It Happen<b class="">? <o:p class=""></o:p></b></div><div style="margin: 0in;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in;" class="">It happens at the borders <o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in;" class="">when grim men answer <o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in;" class="">all questions with a flag <o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in;" class="">and dismiss talk of civil rights<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in;" class="">with scribble of a pen.<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in;" class="">It happens when freedom slams<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in;" class="">its door on desperate, broken <o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in;" class="">hands, and punishes the children <o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in;" class="">who come from different lands.<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in;" class="">It happens when the knees of <o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in;" class="">democracy buckle and money <o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in;" class="">decides, who walks the long <o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in;" class="">way home and who gets a <o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in;" class="">chauffeured ride.<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in;" class="">It happens when we’re busy and <o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in;" class="">ignore the signs that tell, not how<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in;" class="">or when, but enough to know, we <o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in;" class="">lose the country when <i class="">we, the people<o:p class=""></o:p></i></div><div style="margin: 0in;" class="">lose control<i class="">. <o:p class=""></o:p></i></div><div style="margin: 0in;" class=""><i class=""> </i></div><div style="margin: 0in;" class="">How do we change it?<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in;" class=""><b class="">Vote because you can<o:p class=""></o:p></b></div><div style="margin: 0in;" class=""><b class=""><i class=""> </i></b></div><div style="margin: 0in; text-align: justify;" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- Patrice Warrender<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in;" class=""> </div></div></body></html>