The Way Back Poem by Margaret Alice Second

Finally the world I know is changing, Barbarians
are rising against the current order - soon we'll
return to a primitive form of society where all is
peace and calm, beauty will be chased without
the impediments of discipline and restraints, an
overgrown orange barbarian in America aspires
to be President and the barbarians in Southern
Africa are already ruling, while gloriously

Those happy idiots called students are burning
down the institutions of learning to ensure Africa
stays undeveloped & the Northern Hemisphere
keeps the advantage; how lucky that the languid
boredom of law and order is replaced by exciting
chaos - which is joyous news - otherwise history
would stop and what a boring world that would be,
let Presidents return us to primitive forms of

Living since technology is destroying the world,
let us enjoy the banana republic as the only way
to free Africa of the shackles of technology and
return a pristine Africa to its original inhabitants
who idolise Mugabe's Zimbabwe as the way back
to the unspoiled past, how happy this makes me,
life is getting better as students destroy every-
thing to prove their freedom & free we shall be