Collective Guilt (Me and The Black Cat) EDIT 1.02: Kolemath, A. R., River Notch.

[vagabond]

Collective Guilt (Me and The Black Cat)

We are good like God.
Punishing the faithful with purpose       do you mean "on purpose" or "by giving them purpose" ?maybe write "with a sense of purpose"..
like Satan.

We have rights like King.
Dreaming up righteous mandates
like the Klan.                                                           king didn´t dream up righteous mandates like the klan. but this is just my view, i fail to accept putting these movements on the same level.

We give hope like Jesus.                              
Keeping faith in cult personalities    
like Manson.                                                    hmm, i do like this stanza, but manson... it´s  not faith but fear. like some  god that could strike whenever he wants.
maybe change the first line and write "we believe in" or " we hope for jesus" and in the second line "praying to cult personalities", then i could  follow the turn to manson.

We are free like Gandhi.
To defend the unspoken minority
like old Mao.                                                    isn´t it more like an unspoken majority gandhi defended?
it would be cool if you could come up with some allusion to prisons that may or may not be real.. but communism just doesn´t do it for me.


We still live like Buddha.
Awaiting our rebirth
like lost fools.                        i try to read this in the light of the poem´s title. so i get to " just accept you´re guilty". no i am not sure if you meant it that way, but this is why i like this poem.