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The coolest thing about it
all the kids agreed
was the explosion
when the moons collided
of course it was sad
when the miners died
but at least  they went out
with a bang

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Industrial Astronomy

jumped to the next bright star

found a mined-out hunk of cold iron

like a trillion-ton eggshell

the light we’d aimed by

had been its last

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What a splendid use for time travel! Mine in the Pliocene what's already eroded away by the Anthropocene. Teensy prob. When the prospectors arrive the fucking coal is gone. Mined last year by claim jumpers from next.