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In pleasantries, orchestrated on our screens, We live the lives of many men and women, As if sex could be! We grow, composed of well-cooked pablum Eaten between long work hours, digested pleasantly. In a fetal coil, I rest, my optic eye Doesn’t blink at the silver reticules of my mind: My body well knit by well-knit engineers, This me-model makes real tears, running from my eyes. Of course I’m human – hammered out in school, Wearing what Designers Club tells me to; You and I, we can adjust ourselves with tools, Look down upon the Primitives -- those old fools. Insulated from all microbial bio-terrors, Safe from the brute, the thorn, the flawed flower Blooming wild; we -- kept safe – know no variant weather, Pity the Primitive, exposed to flood and laser-tower. Did you see those messages, scrawled upon a wall, Comparing us with vipers at Adam’s Fall? There’s not an original thought in what he thinks: That purist Primitive! His raw flesh stinks! Computers say it best, and yet, I see Something –compelling--- in his graffiti: “O song, sing forth unto the endless skies-- O hear, created stars! You long have looked Upon all who weep, who ever made outcry, And wrote it down, in God’s forgotten book.” written for those in the future--a protest against genetic engineering
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