This Poem was Submitted By: lonnie hicks On Date: 2002-08-03 16:12:10 . . . Click Here To Mail this Poem to a Friend!

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Iron Math And Society

I have so easily accepted these pulley ropes hoisting my self's achievements for all to see. Fames' Face applauds Ambition's ends and I am predicted to be uplifted to Security and Prosperity; rising above personal history surrounded by words and praises and Potentialities, Promises and Possibilities gleaming, glowing future-beacons calling for hard work sacrifice and ideals to deliver me and mine, where deliverance sits with Happiness and Contentment and presumably Love and Friends too. A lot here recommends. But the pulley ropes remind me simultaneously, cruelly, pardoxically of the zero sum-- one up for me and one down for thee, Iron Math and Society, algebratically; gainless goals for me pains for thee nothing is the total algebratically in society: Iron Math Indeed. Competition's seeds equal I win you lose equally. Sad outcome for you and less clearly also for me. This engine devours the participants who, in riding Success's Whirlwind pay the Conductor's Fee in Ideals Foregone Competitively. Easy choice is foreclosed institutionally and we grapple with horizons cut; from Competitive Cloth  and Choices Yet Unseen.  

Copyright © August 2002 lonnie hicks

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Ihave deliverly capitalized certain words.


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