ar563303@sjuvax.UUCP (rowley) (03/12/86)
*** REPLACE THIS LINE WITH YOUR MESSAGE *** The Doomsday Ramble (an attempt at semipoetic social commentary) --------------------------------------------------------------- There is a thin line between convenience and control and we are fast becoming slaves to our own petty machinations We have sold our birthright for "security" and "prosperity"; empty political promises which have turned us into a nation of complacent fools on whom the joke rests... It is far better to live on the precipice than to stagnate in dull contentment Propped up in chairs with your Reeboks and your Guess jeans watching your world falter and die choking on its own excess Life should be more than a slow crawl through a prefabricated prison to the solace of death Put off your selfmade shackles of Conformity and toss aside the trappings of the robotic mass culture... Your own destiny lies before you far from the caves and sewers of "Modern Living" Put away your death machines and your fastlane toys and come join us out in the sun TV porn and designer drugs are the flotsam of your age as the world skips to the beat of twitching fingers held over doomsday buttons by faded B-movie stars and their Eastbloc cronies... Let us cease this madness and return to the roots of peace Put down your guns and pick up shovels to help us bury the spectre of Atomization forevermore and with it the foul products of four decades and small change in the valley of the shadow of death... Give us grass over concrete and asphalt and trees over steel as we choose to wear our own colors and not those of fashion puppets on television... Comments and constructive criticisms are gratefully appreciated. Tony Rowley -- _______________________________________________________________________________ Anthony J. Rowley St. Joseph's University Philadelphia, PA USA ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- { bpa | burdvax | allegra | astrovax } !sjuvax!ar563303 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "These things we do...that others may live" - from the PA Wing Rangers' Creed _______________________________________________________________________________