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For the Serling vs Roddenberry vs Hitchcock Poetry Contest, Sponsored by Tom Woody
So Passe
Witness if you will, the occupants of Deep Space Flight 6952,
on a mission to the farthest reaches of the galaxy.
A short time ago, the spaceship experienced turbulence,
and soon they'll experience fear, and even doubt reality.
They've just entered The Twilight Zone.
'What a rough patch of turbulence!' said Thomas. Nicole
responded, 'I believe it's the worst we've encountered yet.'
Then Nicole suddenly tasted coffee, that had not even
begun to be brewed, to her regret!
The rest of the crew noticed strange things, too,
like thud sounds before stray asteroids hit; and also their ship
speeding back the way they'd come from, like a comet!
The increasingly disoriented crew also noticed clocks
and watches flowing backwards; for these were causality days.
That wild turbulence must have been a worm hole.
Time as they'd known it was gone, like tears when the music
plays!
The crew then ate an odd and sumptuous meal as stars flashed
in reverse, like a weary clown, with few joys left to disperse.
But, the meal was partaken of, before anyone had prepared it,
promising someone work, without future reward, while wishing
others had spared it!
Then the crew began looking remarakably fit, as if all were
ten years younger; so to decrease time dilation, they sharply
reduced their speed, to make their position stronger.
All agreed they didn't want to return to a world, where day
began at sunset; for if life was lived backward, with no future,
life would be filled with regret!
They must find that wormhole, where the future had died, and
enter it again. For the nostalgic past had already been lived,
and much of it was a pain.
Flight 6952 is on a quest, to find space and time as the crew
once knew it. If they find the wormhole, they hope that they can
manage to get through it. Until they do, they will just have to
keep trying-in The Twilight Zone.
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