RANDOM JACK POETRY HOUR: LIFE SONGS
Brave New World
The brave new world came and went
Before our fascination spent
We rallied to the cry: resist!
They took their shot and missed
The people here are not so lame
Our wilder spirits cannot be tamed
With medicines or other pills
That sap and shape the force of wills
We are as we have always been
Individualistic women and men
Who worship at the sacred tree
Fight long and hard for liberty
We play our separate roles
We’ll never lose our separate souls
Nor sacrifice our sanity
To your dystopian vanity
We know we have our flaws
There are too many laws
That tell us what to think and do
That try to sell us something new
Something bigger brighter wiser
No more greed no more misers
No more worries no more cares
We’ll all have our equal shares
No more loneliness or sorrow
A promise for a new tomorrow
We will fight it to the end
On that you can depend
(re: Aldous Huxley)
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