it started with small freedoms:
the freedom of pressing the snooze button
the freedom of letting your hair down and letting it be
the freedom of stretching and unbuttoning
the freedom of the last little bite and the first sip
the freedom of humming to yourself.
but soon she set her sights on greater targets:
the freedom of going unwashed for a day or two
the freedom of tearing up traffic fines
the freedom of unconventional punctuation (...!)
the freedom of spontaneous dancing, lucid dreaming and random acting.
stealthily and with impressive prowess, the freedom fighter got to all of them.
she managed to rob you of ("liberate you from") every smile, song,
glance and idea that you'd freely express.
and you realized that she would not stop
you saw "Operation CATS" printed in bold in her mission statement:
Choice, Access, Thought and Speech - she would fight them until the very end.
she knew what's best for you, after all.
