Wednesday, May 11, 2022

The March of the Triumphalist Electrons - poem

 

Lawrence Hall

Mhall46184@aol.com 

https://hellopoetry.com/lawrence-hall/

poeticdrivel.blogspot.com

 

The March of the Triumphalist Electrons

 

“Forward, Electronics, your victory’s achieved!

   In all communications, progress is our creed!”

 

-Communist youth song in

Solzhenitsyn’s “For the Good of the Cause”

 

In all obedience learn to code, to code

For in obeying orders you think for yourself

And rebel by chanting and clenching your fist

As an individual just like everyone else

 

Now burn your poems, your notebooks, and your pens

And slaughter your thoughts wherever they hide

We will send you your soul through a little screen

Unisize, unisex, one soul fits all

 

And then, like Moloch and Herod, turn your wild eyes

Your burning eyes

Upon your children

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