Prosthesis Culture
If I were blind
could I not see by thy hand?
If I were limbless
could I not strike with my tongue?
If I were deaf
could I not hear the emotion on a face?
How now far inside
the tomb lies
the answer to all questions
Faustus?
If you cannot work
you cannot contribute to society,
it seems America.
Who are you to the state,
the government, the world?
If all value were placed
on the backs of the worker,
the progressive, the animated,
for a culture of workers,
a culture of industry thinkers
and what came before it -
a war of ideas,
then why wait
for the invention
of the machine.
We can decide
for ourselves
come November.
---Ron Steiner
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