Saturday, May 30, 2009

I wrote this two years ago...

Extinct

The last angry scream

was heard in circa three zero one six,

said the Committee For Conservation

Of Emotional Diversity.

Plundered by Prozac,

anger management

and breathing skills,

it died at the turn of the century.

In its place, it spawned

a new religion of deep inhalers,

whose bodies were temples,

who ate low-fat meals.

Its demise was recorded

in the Extinct Emotion Registry,

created by a concerned few

in circa two zero seventy

to preserve all that was

lost or deleted,

when megachips decoded

genomic anomalies,

faulty circuitry,

marginal incongruities, 

and scrambled

the infinite capacity

that humans had for error.

©Reportergirl 9.01.07

2 comments:

shenanigans said...

Just thought you'd like to know the loudest angry scream was just heard at Serangoon! I think it was a 9.8 on the Richter scale and rendered at least two canines deaf for life.

etong said...

dystopian poetry! yay!