083121b

Things I forgot 1. The single malt was in my soft case 2. Righty loosy on these Vegan bolts 3. Checking my suit before I put it on 4. How much the equipment tech hated me Things I remember 1. The sweet taste of his wife 2. The poker winnings in my locker 3. My last good breath

032121

 

my corpsicle

was the only survivor

Ship breaks it to my clones

 

030821

 

300 years

I dreamed you stayed on Earth

shriveled in your tube

030621c

 

the latest hotrod

drops in from numero 3

you don't give up, do you?

 

030621b

 

the robot truck

jounces to a stop

on the lake bottom

Martian 0

 

030421c

 

How I Spent My Summer Vacation For The Rest Of My Life

 

Jimmy snuck his EMP generator onboard, but we didn't know that till they gave us kids a control-room tour.

021721b

 
native creatures
with spanking new Latin names
they won't be minutes

020621c

 

Looking Back

 

From space we see

caravan routes abandoned

these thousands of years

who settled here,

bore their babes

now buried under shifting sand?

their roads remain

and that is all

 

012421b

 

magnetic juggler

spins singularities

waves without a shore

012121

 

Neither Here Nor There, a rengay

frozen with you

a faded rose you picked

on sad old Earth

Ship had to wake me early

my tube was on the blink

under far-off stars

I play games with avatars

lose every one

Ship randomly

sets its skill up or down

old 3D vids

with new endings every time

all comedies

cryodeck

and airlocks sealed against me

that one episode

plastic cutlery with meals

spoons only now

I run

shouting through corridors

not my nursemaid!

I’m splicing genes in roses

Ship will save the best for you

I look at the stars

some day Ship will let me have

a knife again

 

012021c

 

On the mushroom planet, everyone is a ghoul. On mosquito world, the vampire is queen. But no one wants to visit the planet of the hominins

011821b

 

 

I Didn’t Bring You A T-shirt

We live fast,

our top speed:

tens of thousands of km per second;

not much for a photon,

but our bodies are a drag, spaceship, too;

it’ll take many millennia, your reference frame,

to crawl to the galactic core

and back again.

No one will be here

to oo and ahh over our gorgeous snaps

of the myriads of proximate suns,

the clouds of swirling incandescent gas,

and the great big nothing in the center,

‘cept maybe some hyperevolved insects,

but to them we’re not friends,

or enemies,

or even dinner;

but objects of study:

anatomy, physiology, behavior, etc.

Then,

           of course,

                             dinner.

 

011221c

 

frozen with you

a rose you picked on Earth

color faded, unlike yours

 

110920b

essentials only

in the hydroponic pod

drinking the last tea

102920b

 

transmission from Earth

I love you Darling

takes weeks

102020c

 

Mom says that one day we'll see the stars move, or my children will, but I can't wait that long. Why did she leave her planet so I could waste my whole life in a can? I need to get out!! I need to get out now!

102020

 

glass houses

in a glass world

be very careful!

101720d

 

Post-Humanity

 

still crawling out

blind deaf dumb and orphaned

Voyagers leave the System

100820

 

Out of the corner of my eye

I see bright forests 

pink and yellow trumpets 

nod from drooping stalks

looking straight ahead

I see bare rock and regolith 

this world's paradise

will not be colonized

100320b

 
One more throw of the dice
on Gamma Rigel
I have to win my ship back
want to leave this shithole
the sun's about to blow
I know I'll make it