The future is your other skin

Posted by Rich Magahiz Tue, 25 Mar 2008 18:22:00 GMT

time travel booth
a row of buttons
down her front

bring small bills — transhumans won’t make change

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Floruit

Posted by Rich Magahiz Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:42:00 GMT

mounds
of plastic bags all that is known
of that race


Generation Ten ate all the steel


dust and scrub,

yet this can smells of
iridium

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Somewhere it's Spring

Posted by Rich Magahiz Sun, 03 Feb 2008 00:28:00 GMT

a lark’s song
and she wakes – it’s just a dream
of Earth


through leafmould sapphires burn: Seventh Life


early dawn –

windshields clear of
ammonia frost


next up to bat… Homo habilis


this place of red,

turning… the first of
many worms


when sulphur flows

down living rock,
remember me

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The five stages of middle age

Posted by Rich Magahiz Sat, 26 Jan 2008 15:54:00 GMT

I

Matisse,
in his forties,
was years before his peak.
So what’s the rush? I’ve still got loads
of time.

II

Bastard!
that young pipsqueak
doesn’t deserve that car.
I raced Mustangs when he played with
Hot Wheels.

III

Okay,
I’ll lose some weight,
and switch to light beer too.
I’ll show my old lady I’ve still
got it.

IV

Hang on,
maybe there’s a way.
If I could sell this place…
Dammit, what’s the use, who am I
kidding?

V

Ali –
he missed his chance
at gradual decay.
Strange to picture him living to
my age.

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Pilgrim

Posted by Rich Magahiz Fri, 11 Jan 2008 13:38:00 GMT

out of
the matter pod: a parfit
gentil knight

the Sibyl speaks: silos start to rise

  Ful worthy was he in his lordes werre,
  And therto hadde he riden (no man ferre)
  As wel in Cristendom as hethenesse,
  And ever honoured for his worthinesse.
– Geoffrey Chaucer

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The Restaurant at the Beginning of the Universe

Posted by Rich Magahiz Sat, 05 Jan 2008 00:39:00 GMT

energy - that’s all it is, you know

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Aeons

Posted by Rich Magahiz Tue, 01 Jan 2008 14:10:00 GMT

tick
the mountains crumble
tick
you come back to me

my bad: one more anthracite fruitcake
what the heck are those things in my ash pan?

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