Benito Goebbels woke up early that morning
And he stared happily at the ceiling;
He was so happy, blissfully happy as always.
Benito listened to the bestially beautiful snoring
Echoing round the Epsilon double minus dormitory.
What a lovely sound and how happy he was.
He could still hear the sounds of his favourite tune
Ringing round in his surrogate brain.
"Epsilon double minus
Double minus, double nice
All other castes are total scheiss."
Soon it would be time to go to work again
At the Henry-T sewage farm in Birmingham;
How happy Benito was with his odorous work,
Smelling the nice smells of the sewage,
Paddling around to snatch the Malthusian condoms
Out of the swirling cess pits of the city,
Ensuring that only purest sewage found its way
To the Granada Executive Pumping Station at Wolverhampton.
"Epsilon double minus
Double minus, double nice
All other castes are total scheiss."
How lucky he was not to be a Delta
Or a Gamma with those horrid Khaki clothes.
How happy he was with his black uniform
Only slightly stained with drool down the front.
And how lovely the Feelies had been last night:
It had been his favourite Feely of all:
"Cleaning out the Augean Stables of Filth"
And he had loved the extra smells as well.
"Epsilon double minus
Double minus, double nice
All other castes are total scheiss."
Then the giant Synthetic Viewdata Box switched on
And Benito Goebbels listened carefully:
"Hello dear friends! Wake up and be happy!
Today you have another happy day,
In the lovely Birmingham sewage works!
Don't forget, tonight is Orgy-Porgy Night
At the Giant Ford Cortina Syntho-Brothel!"
Benito loved all the smelly girls there.
"Epsilon double minus
Double minus, double nice
All other castes are total scheiss."
Benito shuffled off joyfully with his brothers
And sisters, all delightful multi-twins
From a single ovum equally deprived
Of oxygen by careful Predestinators.
"How good it is to be the same as everyone!"
Benito mumbled to himself in semi-comprehension.
But he wished he could count how many of his workmates
He had had freedom sex with, but it was more than five.
Author notes
If you haven't read the Huxley book, this will be lost on you. But that's your problem, not mine.
Other must-read "dystopia" novels are...
1984 - George Orwell
Swastika Night - Murray Constantine (aka Katherine Burdakin)
A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess (but be sure to buy the UK edition, not the US edition with the unauthorised revised ending)
A contest entry
- Brave New World by LittleAnn.
600 points, ended February 23, 2008, 4 entries
Gold trophy winner
• next poem in this contest, remove from contest
The Controller knows you will like this. Comment for extra soma.
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The sweet smell of success - what a cracker, I am bowled over by your incredible brilliance. Soma may like it, soma may not - I do but that isn't worth much. Keep on truckin'.
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Soma may like it! That's a motherfucking hoot!
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LOL I can always count on your poems to be twisted and humorous.
But you always work in real places and events and your political statements here and there and I think that's what keeps them interesting. 
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Could it be you've started a Huxley reading group? Lenina Crowne would be proud of this. Only she didn't waste time writing, did she? This vision of the future becomes truer daily. See you at the Birmingham Sewage Works.
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No Lenina was a totally 'up-for-it' sort of girl, even without a gramme or two of soma. She even tried to get the Savage's syntho-acryllic Y-fronts off him.
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I'd say: Sehr gut!
Edna? Oh well, who else could write anything as brilliant as this?
I truly and genuinely love this poem, especially the refrain, or whatever it's called...
And I love what you did with the idea of "Brave New World".
Thank you so much for entering my contest!
Annie
P.S. I started reading "1984" today, so there will soon be a contest about it...
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Seriously, try and read "Swastika Night" (published 1937 I think by "Murray Constantine", republished 1985 with the real author's name, Katharine Burdekin). Now out of print - it MIGHT be available in German but I doubt it as it is a savage view of the world 700 years in the future after seven centuries of Nazi rule following victory in the "Nine Years War". Check it out on the internet for the plot, which is highly feminist, indeed viciously anti-male.
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Haven't read the Huxley book but the plot sounds strangely familiar. Nicely done - don't think I'd want live there. Happy trails
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Brilliant. I particularly like your inspired chorus, such a rousing little ditty. Ford knows, Orgy-Porgy nights are worth the wait. Funny thing, the contrast has altered in the decades since Brave New World was first published, now the castes, ocupations and preoccupations of the inhabitants are not totally alien to our culture. We fast approach our Brave New World.
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O Edna, what a shame I haven't read Brave New World yet, but I promise I will do it as soon as I can. Great poem and blahblahblah as always, I didn't get it though, but who cares actually.
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