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controls read: New Year
balderdash rebuilt on beach
a planet's bad fortune

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sleet freezes over
laser-travelling pirate lands
hydrangea blooms

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= approaching the unreal =

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#poem #poetry #song
#lyrics

= infestation =

we struggle with the depths
of these many million years -
the idea
that we are just surviving
in the scabs
of mother earth

but feel her hand
and watch her scratching
down
to the bleeding bone

at our persistent
irritation

her hot blood, rising

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#poem #poetry #vsshorror #Gaia
#smallpoems

= dropping in for Christmas =

they are much smaller than you expect

squeezing easily into service elevators

though the climb to the roof later

is a proper trial

their little antlers interlocking

on the stairs ...

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#poem #poetry #smallPoems
#christmas #reindeer

Beyond The Bleeding Edge

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in ships like starving sharks
they burst out from the crystal dark
on the trail of tv streams
to home, to planet Earth

their only goal
to block our simple dream
of poisoning the sharing stars
with Wealth

we faced the fight with broken swords
and yet more promises of stocks
our leaders fled like lords to Mars
to secret vaults, with diamomd locks

where now they wait for better times
and higher prophets

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#wrdz
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Close to the nebula the transmission became louder but not clearer:

"Grhhssstryy farthsrrr rr mahandrrro hashhhrrr pritt"

The pattern still persisted, but they were no closer to understanding its meaning.

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= wasps =

they have fallen for a million years
through endless night and stars
knowing they could never land

yet drawn by what they have seen
with giant radioscopic eyes
from their home of boiling sand

the mystery of a world entire
floating through galactic skies
bearing only clouds and seas

of tears

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#poem #poetry #smallpoems
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#wrdz
@sfpoetry

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/nov/15/planet-where-it-rains-sand-revealed-by-nasa-telescope-wasp-107b

(edit, insert line "...sand")

poetry passes
neutrinos from a solar storm
through every rushing heart and head
without detection

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#smallpoems #bonsaiku
#wrdz

#scififri Drake's Equation

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from tomorrow's clouds
the self composed drop truth bombs
figmenting the dead

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#senryu #bonsaiku
#bullyboys
#wrdz

one book to rule them all
one book to find them
one book to bring them all
and in the darkness bind them
in the land of murder
where every body lies

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#bullyboys
#wrdz
when Horror become boring, you can always watch the news ...

(after JRRT)

the union man
sets forth honourable demands
for profit

from rolling death machines
share and share alike
his working life
for poisoned air

but hush now, not a word
of why the beasts roam free
their roars on every street
and more each gasping year;

and each grasping hand
upon an unturned wheel
the accelerating road
to nowhere

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#StrikeAction #climateCrisis
#wrdz

Fun 'Star Trek: Voyager' watch-through update.

I ATE season 4 in quick fashion. I'm knee deep into season 5 now, watching 'Bride of Chaotica' S05E12, and am struck by just how much the likes of 'WandaVision' owe to Star Trek, as a whole, not just this fantastical example of an episode. How much Star Trek itself inherits from classic sci-fi serials and anthologies, comic, radio, film, and television, and how much it relishes that aspect of its own DNA. TOS IS classic sci-fi and I love that these 90s iterations never shied away from that inherently camp heritage.

'Voyager' finally feels like it's found that happy space the best of DS9 & TNG did between serious sci-fi, as they struggle to find a way home, and joyous, gloriously silly sci-fi what-if episodes of stand alone adventures. Characters able to enter both spaces, like Janeway has finally got a chance to, feel much more three-dimensional and fully fleshed out. And I like her more and more as a result.

I did not lament the loss of Kes, the not quiet two year old love interest was so poorly realised as a character. Her replacement, Seven of Nine, has gone miles in realising that other major thread of the Galaxay, the question of what being human means. I missed so much of her origin story and I'm glad I have the details now. I have thoughts about her costuming, saved for another day.

Dare I say it, Neelix is not even irritating, and there have been episodes where he is featured that have been wholly enjoyable. Notably, 'Once Upon a Time' S05E05, that really served to push the reality of the overarching narrative of having an ETA at home of 75 years, without shoving it in your face. It was subtle, emotional, and walked the line between the serious and silly very well.

As I've got 2.5 seasons to, I look forward to the series holding at this quality.

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