THE SUPERMAN

The Superman isn't the thing

That Nietzsche's 'great noontide'

Might lead one to believe,

But a life form superior to man

And inferior to the Superbeing.

The Superman won't be God but godly,

For the Holy Spirit will be transcendent,

While the Superman

Will be partly mundane

And therefore tied to the beastly.

But he will be far less sensual than man,

Because freed from the natural body

And thereby elevated

To the post-human heights of

A brain artificially ran.

Having an old brain

Will keep him inferior to the Superbeing

Of the millennial communes

Which are destined to supplant him

With the termination of all pain.

But the old brain will be

Kept under tight control

As he expands the new brain

With the aid of such synthetic drugs

As the leaders may extol.

And thus he will know a superior form

Of upward self-transcendence

To transcendental man,

Whose television spirituality in appearance

Is the contemporary norm.