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Take a Letter, Maria

Michael Ceraolo

There had long been laws lurking
on the statute books of several states
making it criminal libel to
“blacken the memory of the dead”,
though such laws were rarely enforced
But during the twenty-first century
there was a sinister synergy of several movements
usually at odds with one another

and thus the act against such offenses
(relevant portions only)

Be it enacted by
the Senate and House of Representatives
of the United States of America
in Congress assembled

THAT
it henceforth constitutes a crime
to speak ill of the dead
in any medium
written, spoken, pictorial
(either still or moving),
or implanted directly into the brain,
or in any other manner
that in the future may be devised

In keeping with current libel law
the truth will be an absolute defense,
but such truth can only come
directly from the deceased
either in word or deed known
during the deceased’s lifetime,
or from the testimony of others,
under oath, in a civil or criminal proceeding
Anything not known during the deceased’s lifetime
will forever remain unsettled as to its truth
The same standard will also apply
to any group of persons no longer living,
no matter how that group is defined
or whether it was defined as a group at the time

In keeping with concurrent changes in the copyright law,
all nonfiction books depicting the deceased,
and any fiction book depicting an actual
person or persons no longer living,
will have to show no violations of this law
in order to have such copyright renewed
Anything disseminated without such copyright
will face increased penalties
for violations of this law

Enacted this Eighteenth of June
20––

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