ar563303@sjuvax.UUCP (rowley) (03/12/86)
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The Doomsday Ramble (an attempt at semipoetic social commentary)
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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
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Anthony J. Rowley St. Joseph's University Philadelphia, PA USA
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