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Showing posts with label Scifaiku. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Scifaiku. Show all posts

Friday, April 15, 2022

Never Ever Again

The photogenic president is fun-loving and equipped with the gift of speech. The words roll off his tongue like liquid honey from a Mason jar. "This is the promised land big enough for everyone!" With his fist thumping in the winter air outside the Museum for Human Rights, he cries out to an admiring crowd against anti-Asian hate. Across the country, his words travel faster and last longer than his actions.

kung flu, kung flu ...
I unzip my skin
put on another

Tuesday, January 11, 2022

Inuit Child's Wish Sci-fi Haiku

a midnight river 
of Starlink satellites ...
an Inuit child's wish


FYI: Is Starlink a grand innovation or a menace?Space, January 7, 2022

Starlink is the name of a satellite network developed by the private spaceflight company SpaceX to provide low-cost internet to remote locations. SpaceX eventually hopes to have as many as 42,000 satellites in this so-called megaconstellation... 

Thursday, January 6, 2022

Neither Heaven Nor Earth

This Brave New World, XXXVI 
the "first and only" sci-fi haiku sequence about the January 6th insurrection written for its first anniversary 

e-trashed in 
(with the voices of my mind)
January 6th

light-year of QAnons
blocked between Trump fans and foes 
the Capitol Scrapyard

Liu not Lou, Liu not Lou ... 
the Trump-minded eTherapist 
can't learn a new trick


FYI: Lou Dobbs, a staunch Donald Trump supporter who hosted Fox Business Network’s highest-rated show, was a key driver of baseless election fraud claims. Fore more, see Fox News cancels Lou Dobbs Tonight , The Guardian, Feb. 5 2021


AddedThis Brave New World, XXXVII 

overcast skies
stains visible on the steps
to the Capitol

Wednesday, January 5, 2022

Heated Debate Scifaiku

written on the eve of the first anniversary of the January 6th insurrection and for Robert J. Sawyer who proclaims: Science fiction has always been a means for political comment
                                                                
heated debate 
a black hole in my eMind
light-hour wide