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A blog featuring science fiction poetry. Some of it is distressing, some of it isn’t bad. Some of it is far reaching, and some of it feels like you could pick up a toolbox and make it happen.
Active Shooter Suppression System
Wide eyed Screaming Short breath Shaking hands Pulls Fluorescent green Lever on the Wall nearby. Sticky white foam Explodes out From pipes Hanging bolted Beneath the Fire suppression Sprinkler system Lines. Coughing Banging into furniture Scrambling away Blood trickling by Fresh, jagged, Bullet holes On the wall. Now he struggles To reload. …
New Normals #1: Thomas Verdone Jr.
Today in History 2055: America elects its first Kommon Kink Kult member as president. A far cry from JFK, America’s first Middle Catholic president, Sunfox broke through entrenched stigma against so called, New Religions, by focusing all the meaningful aspects of his platform on popular manufacturing reforms. Born Thomas Verdone Jr., and known by his …
Rocking Cars
Ethiopian and Somali Midwest megalopolis kids Harassed while commuting To school, Meet at summer coding camp, And study traffic law. Dads downstairs laugh about Times past in dusty cities Alerted by screams Beating thieves in the street While fat, bribed, police sit at the station. Low-income high school teacher Americorps volunteer weighs in. …
Manifest Destiny, a Continuous Project
Land grabbers barrel toward The heartland. American lawmakers And unhappy urban masses Look deep in their hearts And ask if Taking away someone’s land Is really so extreme? Or something wholly natural. Lions chasing off cheetahs. Coyotes chase off buzzards, If you don’t use it as well, Then we’ll come for it. …
Body Pockets
Subcutaneous Modifications Make for Mild party tricks And offer Day at the beach Convenience. Straight edge dads In striped Polo’s Book appointments online For piercing parlors With good Yelp reviews. Cheery skinsmiths Greet out of place Artisan class Lawyers, Computer scientists, Pilots, At the door. Sitting on a Dentists chair A man …
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