Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site sjuvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!sjuvax!6912ar04 From: 6912ar04@sjuvax.UUCP (rowley) Newsgroups: net.poems Subject: An Untitled Poem... Message-ID: <705@sjuvax.UUCP> Date: Mon, 3-Dec-84 13:10:53 EST Article-I.D.: sjuvax.705 Posted: Mon Dec 3 13:10:53 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 5-Dec-84 00:14:02 EST Reply-To: 6912ar04@sjuvax.UUCP (rowley) Organization: St. Josephs University, Phila. PA. Lines: 50 () I am the product of too many environmental factors Science has stripped me of my humanity, technology of my identity... Behold, the electric eunuch! There are those of us who point to the brink with frustrated fingers and abused tongues mocked as featherless parrots A nation of complacency and Kodachrome families with programmed emotions and empty souls Charisma feeds the hungry like sexuality stops rapists... Enough of this! Dispose of the video pied-pipers and their yes-men I've had enough of the TV emperors and their id-related doctrines, for the pleasure principle is the American Dream run rampant A plant outgrown its pot withers and events lie along that course Give us wings to fly Give us a little more time to perfect what we have Give us burning sunsets to go down with in flaming spectacles Give us trust among strangers and feasts for the hungry We need magic in the night to calm fears and bring light to darkened eyes and joy to eclipsed souls... (c) 1984 Anthony J. Rowley Please reply,I'd like to hear comments on my first faltering attempt...