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Array ( [sid] => 183258 [catid] => 1 [aid] => mick [title] => What ever shall we do with grandma? [time] => 2016-06-15 22:05:53 [hometext] => Full Circle [bodytext] => Let’s raise a glass to those clever gene splicers;
Who grew foods gigantic; from paper thin slices;
Of DNA markers; from which they create;
from one single apple, enough to feed eight!

Fast forward 10 years of bio-genetics;
No one is starving; were into asthetics;
With built in resistance to sequential stranding;
Now it is beauty and youth we’re demanding!

Once again Bayer, Dow Corning, Dupont;
Rise to supply us with what we all want!
Biotechnology makes a decision;
To maximize humans as host organisms!
Experimental molecular clones;
Infused with the finest of genes we can own!
Grown in a lab to prevent degradation;
We engineer out all unwanted mutation!

A planet of beautiful people they paid for;
Left nothing to fear; and nothing to pray for.
Clean air and water; and farms growing wild.
All of our needs met, the government’s child;

In our 200th year we get a vacation;
Back to the lab for regeneration!
Grandmas and Grandpas return one and all;
Hundreds of thousands inside the great hall.

Even with all of the food we now make;
Successful research had made one mistake.
Freed of disease, healthy and strong;
Although we may age, we live far too long!
To make room for new ones who still can produce;
We have to depopulate those of no use!

The bands play with vigor; the alcohol’s free;
We honor your service; and read the decree!
Please face the plasma torch; in us you trust;
Call the custodian; vacuum them up.




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What ever shall we do with grandma?

Contributed by softerware on Wednesday, 15th June 2016 @ 10:05:53 PM in AEST
Topic: scifi



Let’s raise a glass to those clever gene splicers;
Who grew foods gigantic; from paper thin slices;
Of DNA markers; from which they create;
from one single apple, enough to feed eight!

Fast forward 10 years of bio-genetics;
No one is starving; were into asthetics;
With built in resistance to sequential stranding;
Now it is beauty and youth we’re demanding!

Once again Bayer, Dow Corning, Dupont;
Rise to supply us with what we all want!
Biotechnology makes a decision;
To maximize humans as host organisms!
Experimental molecular clones;
Infused with the finest of genes we can own!
Grown in a lab to prevent degradation;
We engineer out all unwanted mutation!

A planet of beautiful people they paid for;
Left nothing to fear; and nothing to pray for.
Clean air and water; and farms growing wild.
All of our needs met, the government’s child;

In our 200th year we get a vacation;
Back to the lab for regeneration!
Grandmas and Grandpas return one and all;
Hundreds of thousands inside the great hall.

Even with all of the food we now make;
Successful research had made one mistake.
Freed of disease, healthy and strong;
Although we may age, we live far too long!
To make room for new ones who still can produce;
We have to depopulate those of no use!

The bands play with vigor; the alcohol’s free;
We honor your service; and read the decree!
Please face the plasma torch; in us you trust;
Call the custodian; vacuum them up.








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Re: What ever shall we do with grandma? (User Rating: 1 )
by poeticjestix on Saturday, 18th June 2016 @ 02:28:24 PM AEST
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For some reason, you remind me of Kurt Vonnegut. Irony, disdain and comedy - added like herbs to a dish, rather than full on.

I enjoyed the rhythm, and the story. Last line seems a little weak. Vacuum leaves little option for a rhyme.
thrust, crust, must (as in mould), just, dust, fussed (as in not fussed).

Anyway, it/'/s all about opinions.


Re: What ever shall we do with grandma? (User Rating: 1 )
by Puppy_dog_eyes on Friday, 24th June 2016 @ 06:10:00 PM AEST
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Kind of reminded me a little of the movie Logan/'/s Run, where when people reached the age of 30 they were terminated in what was affectionate known as "carousel".....they believed they would be reborn but this was not the case.
You make the same point, what will happen when man eventually controls nature.
We wonder.


Re: What ever shall we do with grandma? (User Rating: 1 )
by Spike on Tuesday, 28th June 2016 @ 07:30:27 AM AEST
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...but don/'/t waste /'/em - Soylent Green the lot!

Clever, clever girl.




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