Doing It and Doing It

Making any act a crime
Never stopped it happening—

A massive apparatus
Of enforcement possibly

Made the act extremely rare.
This goes for the crimes you know,

Consider as must-be crimes—
Murder and theft, for instance—

And the crimes you consider
Should never have been called crimes.

And it will probably go
For some act legal for you

That will be made criminal
Under future conditions.

People will keep doing it,
Maybe less than you do it.