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                        Millennium Doom

'Millennium Doom' is the name of this poem
(A quite macabre title, I'm sure you'll agree!)
I'm sorry but I fear the way things are going
It won't be as great as we think it'll be...

By that time all manner of things could go wrong
(A comet, a war, a nuclear attack)
Instead of just hopefully pootling along
We should be considering ways to strike back.

The laissez-faire attitude may be OK
Economically speaking, but I would contest
That its use vis á vis the world's problems today
May prove cataclysmic, disastrous at best.

In the absence of the kind of changing of thought
For which modern society today has no room
We may well all go through what 'twas written we ought;
The end of an epoch: Millennium Doom.


                                                                                        MTJ  12.98