A curtain call

Please ladies and gentlemen…
A round of applause for this worthy verdict!
Please understand now:
Silence is molten.
Please no more talk of freedoms that aren't for sale.
Please don't reveal the price we offered for yours.
We don't want to be a state
In which we can't negotiate.
Please try to remember the last time you heard the word
'Redistribution.'
Please do a study on its unmarketability.
Is it poor packaging, no target audience, less consumer recall?
Or all of the above?
And now please quickly forget the word 'redistribution.'
Please always remember the word 'sedition.'
Please don't laugh outside the punchline.
Always keep in mind the line of control.
Please ignore those people asking for a little shame.
Let's sweep them under the red carpet of this political endgame.
Please stop harping on about the 5th and 6th Schedules,
Even if you're constitutionally inclined to perfidy.
Please find below the answer to all your queries:
National security.
Please don't ask why you're still afraid.
Please note the ingenuity of selling you the right to know
Knowing well you'll never know your rights.
And now, deviyon aur sajjano
Please, please us, oh yeah, like we please you.

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