Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Rape of Radio
My Name is Radio!
BY Robert West
My name is Radio! My influence shall abide!
I, Magic Box, am something years ago
The wizards dreamed of in the Arabian Nights.
Science has conceived and brought to birth,
More wondrous far than legends' figments wrought
By the ingenious bards of long ago.
Use cannot make me stale nor custom pale
The glamor of my march of offerings.
The world now needs me every- day and night
To fill its every want and appetite
For news, for music and sweet conversation,
For comedy that wreathes society in smiles.
I feel like a spirit medium that can bring
The listener what'er he wishes from the void.
Do you want multitude of thoughts, all types?
Full measure comes with the revolving dial;
The masters wait to pour out symphonies
That rock the world and set your soul on fire.
Do you want messages of happenings
About this troublous world? You surely may.
Do you seek sympathy, companionship?
Then I am ready to respond and give
You all the fullness of my complex chords
To shake you out of selfish isolation
As you glide on from station unto station.
For I am Radio! Forward tomorrow,
I shall strike out for rich new worlds to conquer
Making the present television faint
A shadow of the glories that will come
In fullness of the real in shape and hue.
Life shall be more bounteous for my task!
'Tis mine to enlarge your reach and view and ear
To the utmost bounds, making man great
As could be wished when a young Alexander
Did set to conquer the whole habited world;
Only my means persuasively are unfurled.
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