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Coffee Shop Darwinians
“We’ll set a fine, new, well-oiled machine in place
of the old one and this time we’ll put the Normans
into it instead. That’s what justice means, isn’t it?”
-Saxon Monk in Becket
No, of course it didn’t have to happen
We’re not campus coffee shop Darwinians
Determined that five innocents needed to die
Within the gears of our new, well-oiled machine
And that more should come, chanting “O Machine!” 1
“Follow the Science!” and “Learn. To. Code!”
As they sacrifice themselves to a Tweeter-sanctioned
Infestation of Manifest Destiny
And I’ve got a feeling, as you might agree:
No one on either side quotes Dostoyevsky
1 “The Machine Stops,” E. M. Forster
A poem is itself.
