[Roger Slater]

Yes, maybe even too good for the contest, but I'd enter it just the same.

[FOsen]

- always a contest behind . . . .

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Get your Outer Party on! Let your Inner Party out! At one of our Miniluv weekends,

Where, for a limited time,

2 proles can disappear for the price of 1 unperson

in the awesome Ministry of Love.

Unremember, what happens in Room 101 stays in Room 101 . . .

Each windowless suite contains 24-hour telescreen and miniplenty bar stocked with black bread and Victory gin!

Last month, a deal this low was a thought-crime! Next month- who knows???

So, act doubleplus, speedwise—it’s not the only thing subject to elimination!

Why torture yourself, when we’ll do everything for you?

I'm Big Brother: I’m back—and I’m watchin’

Offer not valid in Eurasia, Eastasia, and parts of Airstrip 2. Terms subject to retroactive historical revision and memory hole . . . . what?

[Marion Shore]

Originally Posted by Roger Slater

Yes, maybe even too good for the contest, but I'd enter it just the same.

Nope, way too good. Don't bother entering.

[Susan McLean]

Thanks for the responses, everyone. I've gone ahead and entered the poem. It was inspired partly by my shock on learning, every time I have taught Brave New World to my students, that some of them can't see anything wrong with the world described in it. They wish they were there.

Susan

[Roger Slater]

That's good, though I think the poem will have a life beyond the contest whether it wins or loses.

[Marion Shore]

I wish I were there.

[Susan McLean]

Marion, I hope you haven't read the book recently if you think so.

Susan

[Marion Shore]

Susan, it's just that it beats this crappy world by a landslide.