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From: ar563303@sjuvax.UUCP (rowley)
Newsgroups: net.poems
Subject: A Poem
Message-ID: <2775@sjuvax.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 12-Feb-86 12:55:46 EST
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Posted: Wed Feb 12 12:55:46 1986
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 Untitled (I haven't submitted to this net in a while so feel free to comment)


 A nation in stagnation...
riding the waves of conformity 
with slow,silent erosion
 We need a new diversity
breaking through the barriers
imposed by a media-induced society
and rising to a new dawn of freedom
 The hypnotic litany
of "wanna get,gotta buy" holds
millions in thrall before
the unblinking cathode-ray eye...
 The wheel has come full-circle
as freedoms are curtailed not
by government but by the governed
and the hype to which they are
subject...
 Can any hell be worse than that
of a people who have lost
their essence?
 Freedom and creativity have 
been voluntarily put by the wayside
as B-grade movie stars rule over
a jaded world made in Japan...
 Spare me from the rhetoric
of sameness and "normalcy"
for you have made it bad enough...
 A revolution is in order
not with guns or money but with
the best of old and new in synthesis
to bring color back to a dull 
humanity
 Our "modern-day utopia" is
a bare-faced lie concocted by old men in
business suits looking to get the rest
and the best of everything
as they rape our wildlands and poison us with toxic
wastes in the name of progress...
 The warmongers fattening htemselves with the lifeblood of 
our nation...
 Spare me from all these things
and reserve me a place in the wilds if there
are any left by the time I finish...