[Newspoetry] Editor's Culls CopyRight Lulls [a Texan drool and drawl implied]

[John Wason]

Wonderful poem!  If you bemoan "copywrongs", what about the patenting of
genes??

John


On Wed, 20 Feb 2002, Donald L Emerick wrote:

> Be-Moaning for a CopyRight
> 
> Altruism is never enough
> Says a dogma of selfish greed
> To meet inchoate social need
> For creating, inventing stuff.
> 
> They hold that an inquiring mind
> Would work only for some pleasure
> To be found in piles of treasure
> And not for any joy, refined.
> 
> Shocking to them, too, are manners
> Of civility and dignity,
> Of deified humanity,
> Sans slogans on crossing banners.
> 
> Protect any right to profit;
> An idea just labors, idle --
> Love's labor is lost sans bridle.
> Copyright or else get off it.
> 
> Created free, but owned forever:
> An idea increases slavery,
> Puts people under knavery,
> Jacks a world off on its lever.
> 
> Property always has its chains
> Stretching across open highways,
> Forcing progress into byways
> That flush our lives down bank drains.
> 
> Copywrong: if you love, love me --
> Two is but one twice gone away
> Turning vicious circles for play.
> Copywrong: if you move, move me.
> 
> "How could you be so large, to own
> An idea of wondrous nature?
> How come you to such inflature?"
> A world so full of you does moan.
> 
> Thanks for listening,
> Donald L Emerick
> 
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