I wonder if old ladies with vivid blue hair
remember the works of Upton Sinclair

I wonder if they thought he was weird, crazy,
or even fashionably debonair

I wonder what people from history would do
if we brought them forward in time

if they would praise our technology or
decry civilization as debauchery and crime

against humanity would resume anew
when the hundred year old lepers still desire to screw

laugh now but in a few years you’ll think better
when Britney Spears gets engaged to Art Linkletter

so I wonder if we brought Andrew Carnegie forth
if he would refer repeatedly to the North

or take a road trip in a horseless carriage, how quaint
to see all his libraries he did so generously donate

so everyone who lives after he died would think him a saint
his portrait’s made of his workers’ blood, not paint

they couldn’t really eat but at least they could read
and such an old school Reaganomicsist we so desperately need

give a hoot, read a book, and just say no to minimum wage laws

so would they kill the minorities or set off the bombs
or just wonder where all the flying cars have gone

would they hate modern poetry for not trying to rhyme

or would their mere presence break holes in time

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