A Rational Appeal
By Chris S., Wellesley, MA
Welcome to the me generation to each his cocoon and ideals
Welcome to complacency no matter how the rest of the world feels
Where neighbors are strangers and nobody cares
That you can't swim in the ocean and you can't see through the air
And it is the routine of the living dead
It's the same business suit the same narrow-minded head
But what can bring us together in protest and in cheer
What can move all as one out of caring and not out of fear
Nothing for it is too late to care or to aid
It is time to wake up before the very grounds have decayed
By the year 2000 this earth shall be completely ingested
By the irreversible vortex of chemicals in which our industries invested
For there is no miracle cure like we want to hear again and again
I'm sorry the only solution rests in the hands of ordinary men
So sleep in your cocoon and dream as much as you can
Because when you wake you may find you are the only living man.
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