Perfect Tomorrow, Recycled
Will one day be against the law
To grow your body five feet tall,
To have a paunch/To eat too much:
And those too different [or who Pray]
Will be (Most Kindly) put away.
And will watch you/checking if
You have eaten what they wish,
That you wash, and that you wipe,
Doing Everything That’s Right:
Resistance, futile, as the Borg,
Inefficiency – abhorred—
Then as the drone, when you are old,
[Most Gently] thrown out in the cold.
But after desiccation, then
O Soylent Green, you’ll live again.
JVB September 27, 2007 Viksmanshyttan, Sweden
Copyright © Judyth Vary Baker | Year Posted 2009
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