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Pipe the newest tune of madness,
For this country's citizens,
Who are struck by metric madness...
Poor and helpless denizens.

Watch those drivers on the highways,
Ringed with frowns and without smiles,
As they labour how to render
Kilometers into miles.

On hour housewives show your pity,
As they ply their daily rounds.
To grams all must be converted.
No more ounces...no more pounds.

Voice your feelings for the farmers.
For their daughters and their sons.
They must tabulate in kilos.
No more bushels...no more tons.

And what about all those tradesmen,
Carpenters and engineers.
Draughtsmen, chemists and all others.
For them we should shed our tears.

Teachers, preachers, politicians.
Printers, newsmen...victims all.
Let us hope this metric fever
Will not drive us up the wall.
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Good selection and thanks for sharing. Could you kindly mention the literary age in which this poem was composed and who was it's creator.

I should also request you that please edit it once as there seem some typing errors in prepositions(maybe I am wrong) as I suppose there must be some commas at the places of full-stops.

Take it as a request not as an authoritative directives.

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Volodimir Barabash is the pen name of Michael Barabash. He was born on April 28, 1900 in Hamburg, Germany while his parents, Fred and Martha (Stec) were emigrating from Western Ukraine and died on November 12, 1989. He was a Ukrainian-Canadian poet and philosopher, who had written over 500 poems and nearly 500 aphorisms. On August 28, 1997, a memorial was dedicated to his memory. It was only fitting that memorial should read "Volodimir Barabash - Poet of Optimism".

Well i don't mind editing but would it be right to do so when the poet placed the punctuation marks that way?

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I know how u and ur words speak. Don't worry. I took it as a request.
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