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On Rights

Rights
Are usurpations by collective
Of right
Naturally belonging
To the individual

Pain
Is the most painful
Thing, in the entire world

The individual in pain
To alleviate
The most painful
Of this condition

Has a natural right
To anything available
In nature
Including market —

But even that right
Is first usurped
Then dispensed back
To the individual, through scraps
Drips, after he queues
Begs, submits himself
To agents —
Of collective

Rights are thefts
From the individual
By collective — thieves
Encoded in laws
As laws

To petition for rights
Is to appeal
To the diary of a thief
In which the record
Of everything taken

From the individual
Is called
Constitution

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