Monday, January 18, 2021

Coffee Shop Darwinians - poem

 

Lawrence Hall

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Coffee Shop Darwinians

 

“We’ll set a fine, new, well-oiled machine in place of the old one and 

this time we’ll put the Normans into it instead. That’s what justice

means, isn’t it?”

 

-Saxon Monk in Becket

 

No, of course it didn’t have to happen

We’re not campus coffee shop Darwinians

Determined that five innocents needed to die

Within the gears of our new, well-oiled machine

 

And that more should come, chanting “O Machine!” 1

“Follow the Science!” and “Learn. To. Code!”

As they sacrifice themselves to a Tweeter-sanctioned

Infestation of Manifest Destiny

 

And I’ve got a feeling, as you might agree:

No one on either side quotes Dostoyevsky

 

 

1 “The Machine Stops,” E. M. Forster

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