Papers, please

  ""Papers, Please.
And, watch your pronouns or I'll turn you in as Diseased."

      "Papers, please.
Without them you can't work, go to school, buy, sell, or Eat."

    "Papers, please.
Or I'll shut this business down on the Count of three!  1.  2.  3."

    "Papers, please.
Don't tell me you're one of those people who thinks you can walk around breathing freely?"

   "Papers, please.
Who said you could write a poem without fact checkers telling you what is "safe" to believe or feel?"

     "Papers, please.
You'll need Papers to fill out
Food stamp papers to get Relief Papers; because your pre-existing
Condition bars you from getting Papers. Do you See?"

   "Papers, please.
Without Papers, you can't move freely around the country to GET
Papers on WHy you don't have Papers. What, exactly is so hard to believe?"

    "Papers, please.
You are BARRED from emigrating from your own country; because you need papers explaining why
We took your passport & invalidated it & why you wanted to LEAVE. See?"

   "Papers, please.
What do you mean you didn't get on Paper all the people who told you "Papers, Please"? Without those names on Paper, you can't prove anyone said "Papers, Please" & I can't let you emigrate freely.

   "Papers, please.
You're being arrested for trying to escape your own country. The sentences range, depending on the Papers you have, on 15 years to 3.
    And don't worry about those people walking into the country without papers.
     We respect their Dignity.

       We're not monsters.'