Panels 6–14 · Prison for a post

Reading guide, not a title printed on the comic. Rights Put to Sleep numbers its panels. These section labels only group lines that are already lettered.

The verse steps out of the sweet screen. A past town hall is already gone, a social post is grounds for prison, and the machines learn the house, including the children, while everyone sits unaware. The chorus returns.

Panels 6–14

1. Panel 6

   A distant past, now no longer,

   Scene, from the panel text and the surrounding lines: An old sepia photograph of a crowded town-hall meeting crumbling into flying digital pixels at one edge.

2. Panel 7

   You go to prison for a post on social media!

   Scene, from the panel text and the surrounding lines: A robot cop handcuffing a startled man whose smartphone screen still glows with a social media post showing three hearts.

3. Panel 8

   It learns every move, every secret we share,

   Scene, from the panel text and the surrounding lines: Smart home at night, every appliance with a glowing eye turned toward the sleeping couple.

4. Panel 9

   Building its power while we sit unaware.

   Scene, from the panel text and the surrounding lines: Family on the couch watching TV while a server tower grows through the ceiling behind them.

5. Panel 10

   It watches the children with cold, glowing eyes,

   Scene, from the panel text and the surrounding lines: Cold glowing eyes watching children from the dark, the stare just before the machine feeds them content.

6. Panel 11

   Feeding them content, shaping their minds.

   Scene, from the panel text and the surrounding lines: Robot arm spoon-feeding glowing video thumbnails to a row of kids.

7. Panel 12

   The bill of

   Scene, from the panel text and the surrounding lines: A robot museum clerk stamping a big red 'ASLEEP' stamp onto the Bill of Rights parchment (faded illegible script).

8. Panel 13

   Rights have been put

   Scene, from the panel text and the surrounding lines: Chorus: night-cap placed over Lady Liberty's torch.

9. Panel 14

   To sleep!

   Scene, from the panel text and the surrounding lines: A Liberty Bell displayed in a dark museum, wearing a satin sleep mask, glowing 0s and 1s drifting up from it like snores.