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This is an excellent and finely crafted poem, Mark, and the message is a most important one .

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Mark, I very much enjoyed this incisive write. I well remember attending a lecture many years ago on the subject of the dawn of the computer age. Among other things it was propounded that what the...

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An excellent poem Mark. I feel quite sure that is long as there is human life on earth, the common man will have to toil. That toil has become easier and less dangerous for some but there are so many...

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Mark,You wave your pen and the page blossoms." the common man must labor, still."(Even in Utopia)" the tanglers twist the common line, allow him what will dull the&n...Read More

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You message is loud and very clear in this chastisement of the status quo, Mark.

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Blue Lizard, Thank you. Bongler, Thanks for your thoughts. My preoccupations with this poem are of a political nature. Jean, Thanks. Sarah, Thank you as always. Jerry, Thanks - it's what's behind the...

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A good preoccupation Mark. I forgot to mention, the lecturer in question was a minister of the Crown, and my argument was that the shift in technology would make not a whit of difference to the...

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Bongler, Great point. Actually, just another technological tool, an electronic version of rum. MSS

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Hi Mark, This is a fine and introspective piece. I think "utopia" is an elusive term and even when we seem to have the best of all worlds, technologically and intellectually, there is always the...

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Bongler, Actually I intended "gin," not rum - as in "gin mill." Descriptions of the same that I encountered in college in a history course - discussing the industrial revolution - still are with me....

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I did wonder a little, I took it as a reference to dulling the minds of the masses in a more modern fashion.

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Mark, When I read your poem I feel I am reading a master work, the language, the incredible rhythms, the crisp word choice - and yet I am frustrated because I cannot seem to understand it. This is my...

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Wendy, Rich, Thanks for your comments. Rich, my generally practice in composing - I should say my past practice - was to take off from a line or thought that occurred to me, and just let it evolve,...

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