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Big Brother
A Reading of George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four

Susie Gharib

His eyes are staring at you from coins,
from book covers, from banners, from wombs,
so before you confront the omnipresent telescreen,
which can even capture the rate of heartbeats,
make sure that you wear an optimistic face!

Beware of the look that imparts dismay,
the equivocal glance with a non-Comrade,
the inflection of the voice that is bound to betray
your inward, unorthodox sway.

Beware of the nervous tick, a face-crime,
which can dispatch you to the salt mines,
and those monologues inside your head
the Thought Police can easily detect
to make vaporization your inevitable end.

All children are trained to be the Spies
who denounce their parents should the need arise.

In the Ministry of Truth history is forged
with facts incinerated in the memory hole.
Executions are held in the Ministry of Love
and public hangings are to inspire fun
with the kicking feet and the protruding tongue.

A scientist is an inquisitor, a face-analyst
who detects the thoughts of every anarchist,
who invents germs immunized against defense,
who prepares deadly gas for mass-killings.

Thou shalt learn to duckspeak,
to quack and quack the Party’s creed
even in your sleep.

Remove all pleasure from lawful or illicit sex
and procreation is artificial insemination at best.

And as for your future.
imagine a boot stamping on your face!



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