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 I become unsettled when I review
 The vision of utopia promised to us, it was crushed.
 An antique lorry my father drove
 Rusts in the grass as we roll past my ol' lane
 Its bonnet now a roof to local fauna.
 The air is thick and young Savannah coughs 
 When the windows are allowed open.
 They said healthcare was a right of citizens,
 The right citizens are those with currency
 To get in the doctor's door, the rest wait to die.
 We were promised abundant energy,
 Once the petrol was spent so
 Was the ambition of a nation, tensions burn.
 Automation became extravagant and
 The people forgot how to work for themselves.
 Cities witnessed anarchy after brownouts and
 People became victims of manufactured societies.
 Forward the tram accelerates to the next station.
 Father warned "Damned are those without insight."
 I lay my journal to rest -- April 22, 2073.

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