Fight Against Windmills [r] Poem by Margaret Alice Second

The only reason given for wishing to have a
younger brain is material, people having the
temerity to die, a great sin, leads to a global
loss of €152 billion annually, nothing else of
value seems lost - quality of life, happiness,
enjoyment and optimism - is irrelevant, only
PRODUCTION is taken into account

What if a "younger brain" does not enable us
to enjoy life more, see the positive side of all
challenges, believe in a better future, escape
from the pessimism engendered by the belief
there is no life after death: will studying and
climbing stairs stop us grumbling, will we set
high ideals & try to achieve these?

Will this optimum, financially-younger brain
lead us to find a lodestar - to escape from a
Don-Quixotian fight against windmills, will it
lead to a higher degree of morality and work
ethics: QUITE irrelevant questions, it seems,
the only thing is higher profits globally - will
it be used for infrastructure to distribute

Surplus food to the poor; will it help people
fleeing their own countries, will the work of
these clever, younger-brain-people improve
life for the less intelligent, the handicapped,
and will it be channelled to animal shelters?
NO, of course not, this is not the point, life
is measured in terms of global income

And this is the only criterion accepted in the
media and scientific circles; NOTHING else:
so be it; yet I prefer release from this life to
their suffocating closed-circuit philosophy