Lawrence Hall
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                       The March of the Triumphalist Electrons

                 “Forward, Electronics, your victory’s achieved!
                   In all communications, progress is our creed!”

                               -Communist youth song in
                 Solzhenitsyn’s “For the Good of the Cause”

In all obedience learn to code, to code
For in obeying orders you think for yourself
And rebel by chanting and clenching your fist
As an individual just like everyone else

Now burn your poems, your notebooks, and your pens
And slaughter your thoughts wherever they hide
We will send you your soul through a little screen
Unisize, unisex, one soul fits all

And then, like Moloch and Herod, turn your wild eyes
Your burning eyes
Upon your children