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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=424599" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Act Out Bit Parts as Wit Departs after John Donne Meditation XVII Nunc lento sonitu dicunt morieris</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Cloud cuckoo land where bland hands band against all authenticity, <br>there, playing ball before thrall's shawls eliminates lucidity. <br>Who waits awhile, stands, serves, won't free last long without dexterity -<br>which in itself suspicions casts whate'er one's assiduity.<br> <br>Though almost fifty years have sped since Orwell paper penned to see<br>what hidden time-traps lay ahead - if writ today the same would be<br>as relevant or more. Where fed still silent mass majority<br>clings to and through employment bread with slight sustainability.<br> <br>Every man an island is unto himself, or so should be, <br>yet many abdicate their fate, cede self-respect and liberty.<br>Each to each together chained, suspecting self-sufficiency; <br>by rigid rules, conventions, penned - dumb shadows in Democracy.<br> <br>When compromising breezes blend, most bend, to please society, <br>trends ill to curse where currents tend that set sad score for sanity.<br>Should stout voice shout out from closed shop hive to doubt respectability, <br>we flout it lest it compromise our own invincibility.<br> <br>Ignoring soul-song's anguished sighs most sacrifice ability, <br>conforming fear cut ties, hope dies - lip-service preserves stability.<br>Impeached, tried, sentenced, while rich thrive and undermine equality, <br>most stifle stranger's signal sighs 'there's none so blind as will not see! '<br> <br>In restive rows, mechanic chain, men chafe forever to be free, <br>it rankles, goes against the grain, God: global productivity! <br>Tired, tied to task, most wills expend as ciphers in some factory, <br>or jobless, friendless, on social skills depend meal wheels of industry.<br> <br>From dawn to dusk husk men mark time imprisoned intellectually, <br>as tiny cogs flywheels attend - a terrifying sight to see.<br>Pensions devalued, most descend to penniless impotency, <br>health in tatters, wealth at end, as social superfluity.<br> <br>Where Government sets our stipend to suit its sensitivity.<br>Why do annuities ascend? electoral necessity.<br>Should one question this and that? Ideals are incongruity<br>to uncommitted bureaucrat who kills with calm complacency.<br> <br>Though Internet for change once whet our appetites, 'authority'<br>lies heavier than lead inset upon the space we'd trace as free.<br>Mass media most minds has fed with blatant mediocrity, <br>environment and climate bled by sub-committee potpourri.<br> <br>The generations now instead of freedom find RFID<br>reduces categories read, teach each reach barred identity.<br>Respecting pensions, these are spread so thinly through life's lottery, <br>the turf is bogged, no thoroughbred may speed with legitimity.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> <br>Too far from serendipity false notes mis[t]okat life's melody, <br>an out of tune sad symphony, portrait: immorality.<br>The moral key this thesis notes is underscored by irony -<br>core freedoms prove illusory, sheets wind unkind mortality.<br> <br>Awhile we soujourn, seek to speak, thoughts held back incessantly, <br>act out bit parts as wit departs, while inner phoenix spark most flee<br>for three score years and ten, then see chance pitch and toss cross out 'to be', <br>no breathing space to trace brand name race run humdrum humanity.<br> <br>So here we'll end this winding thread upon a winding sheet to be, <br>in hope that those asleep, abed, discover more maturity<br>so each may maintain dignity, nor principles surrender, key<br>integrity and liberties restore, defend diversity.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">(13 March 2012)</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Jonathan+Robin">Jonathan Robin</a><div class=q>
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