POEM
Berry, Wendell
POEM Wendell Berry The Air of the Free TV, computers, and the Internet Democratize our sins, so that The smallest child may have a dirty mind, And this is progress for our kind, Enriching...
...This way our art and literature Serve our God-given freedom to express Ourselves however we think best And be as uninhibited as hogs, Our electronic catalogs Conveying all our everlasting hopes While we glide down the frozen slopes Of the statistical analysis And the opinion poll...
...POEM Wendell Berry The Air of the Free TV, computers, and the Internet Democratize our sins, so that The smallest child may have a dirty mind, And this is progress for our kind, Enriching those who most deserve to be Enriched, leaving in poverty The ones who're most deserving to be poor...
...When shocked by our electrifying diet Of filth, inanity, and riot, Official violence and family quarrels, We pray to government to save our morals...
...Let this Be a sign unto us: the plug, once plugged, Cannot forever be unplugged...
Vol. 60 • July 1996 • No. 7
