June 3, 2013
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Numberings
There will come a time in this world
When its amalgamated populace is reduced by Numberings
Inscribed at birth on the inside of the wrist of the left arm.
Perpetual in nature,
Impossible to alter or remove and even in the blackness of night,
To glow under ultra-violet in response to many sudden ratifications
By an unknown officialdom.
Race will cease to exist,
As all new-borns’ DeoxyriboNucleic Acid or DNA
Is unspiralled, intermingled and blended
By a radical process known as HUP.
A neologism for “Human Unification Process”
Mandated by the Council of All Peoples or CAP,
The ultimate final homonym in an attempt to delay the Extinction.
As Earth’s Star struggles to penetrate the carbonized thickening opaqueness
Enveloping the dying planet - Its forests, oceans and plains
Starved of vital nutrients and a bleak greyness darkening its final hours,
The CAP determines that all HUPs beyond the age of forty
Must be eliminated to allow for those remaining
To breathe increasingly scarce filtered oxygen for temporal survival,
Those most likely to continue to populate the coming age.It is not a difficult task to cull the populace
Because all Numberings are automatically logged at birth into Vulcan
The WSC or World Super Computer.
Of course, the ten SD’s (Super Directors) are exempted
As Vulcan activates the nano-chips embedded in the Numberings.
A fatal nano-pinch of Preludium courses its way to the brain and the stench
Of world-wide decomposition is unbearable for months on end.
So…What else is new in a world eventually bent on collective suicide?
Note: Hopefully my poem is viewed as an irreverent parody... However, the seven
monitoring stations at the top of Hawaii's Mauna Lau volcano have reported the
highest concentration of symbolically important levels of 400 parts per million
for the first time in 5 million years... Rising emissions from China and India is the
reason given for the spectacular increase...
Comments (6)
Brilliant. I hope that the DNA will be unfurled and the race and color and ethnicities all erased. The concept is so good. But letting us go after we turn 40?? That's okay I suppose because in India, the mid thirties is considered middle age.
Sounds like biblical prophecies and Logan's Run rolled together with recent news.
Horrifying. Sounds vaguely like Aldous Huxley's "Brave New World" to me (a must read by the way). One of the most beautiful aspects of humanity is its diversity, and to erase it would be a crime against humanity.
We've already been hearing the term "useless eaters" for some time in the real world, and there are already policies and practices in place that serve to limit the human population by equally cruel and distasteful means. May your writing here remain in the realm of poetry and never cross over into prophecy!
Well written all the same! Peace
@Roadkill_Spatula - Hopefully, my poem is viewed as irreverent parody but the premise is all too real... The benchmark monitoring stations high on the Mauna Loa volcano report the breaching of the symbolically important level of 400 parts per million for the first time in 5 million years... How they come up with the time factor is not explained but incredibly rising emissions from China and India are the reason given for the spectacular increase...
@ZSA_MD - @ZSA_MD - Thank you Doctor Z... The melding of races is very much apparent on television today and my response to RS cannot be ignored as it is an actual given... "It's on Google so it must be for real!"...
@AOK4WAY - Thank you and blessings on you and yours... "Peace back"...
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