[Newspoetry] False Statement Newspoem

[Paul Kotheimer]

	False Statement Newspoem
	[or, "No.  Sign *THIS!*"]
	

Our position was that,
in a functioning community,
with sustainable technology
and adequate planning,
it would only take a few hours
per week per person
to manufacture or cultivate
everything everyone needs.

Once we succeeded,
everyone was left with
about a hundred waking hours
in that same week, 
absolutely free
for imagining what we would desire,
designing what we imagined,
learning the world,
conversing and deciding,
and being with friends--
(Not necessarily in that order,
but in whatever order we preferred.)

That is what we call desirable.

--Paul Kotheimer 11/28/00
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