From: Lyle Burkhead (LYBRHED@delphi.com)
Date: Mon Nov 25 1996 - 22:34:27 MST
Mark Crosby writes,
> We believe in the One Power
> Who will make the great transform
> transcending us all;
> the best and brightest, eternally replicated,
> through Whom all things are changed.
>
> For us and for our salvation,
> we must solve all the problems of the world
> here and now.
> We must disdain any link with
> suboptimal subsystems of the past.
> We must be the future, now.
>
> etc.
Excuse me, but this is not poetry. It doesn't scan. It has no structure.
Writing prose in short lines doesn't make it into poetry.
Maybe this "poem" was intended as a parody of Extropian non-art.
I hope so.
Lyle
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