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Brave New World Premiere Contest Winner

Brave New World A 'world' it is and it spins around in mad circuits of loopy loops. Has reached an infinite array of denominations in which foolish insane clowns have taken over the asylum once more as bedlam pretends liberation as the counterfeit currency of nauseating progress. 'New' I have my doubts though when fiddling with reconstruction conjures novel aspirations from Holocaust to Hiroshima from pure race unadulterated megalomania to narcissistic greed ‘all can be done’ but the genie emerges from Huxley’s toxic bottle unrestrained. 'Brave' should pertain to courage when golden means and common sense of virtue defaced by ugly grimaces facades mascara of tainted moderation succumbs to mediocrity construed by disingenuous evil. An aberration of jesters plotting naked feasts of blinded engineering. Temptation is an ancient theme and just because we are capable to plot our own demise does not preclude some hesitation or valid inhibition as courage must incorporate the rationale. Not to follow in wolf’s clothing a script of Faustian cloning just because we can. Manipulation of chromosomes through twisted recombining helices as a stairway to hell gave us Dolly the sheep. Another incarnation braying ‘Give me body parts’ to harvest stem cells modified amino acids like little devils on steroids and protein shakes of unpredictability. The most cunning argument for creating whole new persons brought to the fore the notion that if we the ‘good ones’ do not follow science to create what evolution failed to build from nature’s garden and God’s promise then the malign others surely will and consequently all is lost. The mind boggles in the light of self-righteousness and the delusion that refusal and resistance are signs of cowardice and the misconception that two or numerous wrongs result in right and law when duty could prevail as guardian for another world of sanity and accepting our limits. The thought police and miscreant paradigms of Dolly’s dogma will surely try to silence my opinion that courage has another merit than the scientific infestation that my mind and brain needs to be cloned in order to restrain my voice of caution but when I shout ‘enough’ at least my dignity remains.

Copyright © | Year Posted 2017




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Date: 9/18/2017 2:30:00 PM
So eloquently spoken. This tipifies our contemporary situation. Insanity out there kid thats why I meditate. Surely order will return. Your craft and skill is off the page here. Its one beautiful outrage . May it be shouted on every forum. I join in with gusto. Really well penned Kai
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Date: 5/3/2017 9:04:00 AM
Congratulations Kai on winning the Brave New World contest! I know you did your best and I hope to see more of your poems! I enjoy reading your works. Keep on shining. :) -HANS
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Kai Michael Neumann
Date: 5/3/2017 10:45:00 AM
Thank you Hansteven. I really appreciate that. I am sort of flying today, because I just collected my first ever book from the print shop. Many wishes, Kai
Date: 4/27/2017 8:41:00 PM
Congratulations, Kai. Your dignity is intact and disregard anyone's double stink. :)
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Kai Michael Neumann
Date: 4/28/2017 3:35:00 AM
Thank you John. Means a lot to me. I suppose we just have to carry on writing and hope that it will make a little bit of difference. Many wishes to you, Kai
Date: 4/27/2017 7:28:00 PM
A lot of thought went into your #1 piece and it makes a lot of sense. Thanks so much for your hard work & your polished entry. Light & Love Debbie
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Kai Michael Neumann
Date: 4/28/2017 3:33:00 AM
Thank you Debbie for your advice and appreciation. It means a lot to me. And thank you for sponsoring the contest. I know sponsoring is fun, but it is also hard work. Many wishes, Kai

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