Peter Lewis Holmes Poet Free verse

Lily Multiplied

I had been time travelling for about a thousand years
a step away from the milky way now
(engines overheating) you know
my dachshund Lily,floated by and licked my nose 
and did that ear-thing where they curiously flip and 
flop the way they do in ice cream commercials

Lily Carmichael #137 neutron product Earth.
Her breeder had assured me her breed was genuine 
and she would be a good little dog

but Lily had reproduced herself by jumping 
into the halidron multiplier
so now you see, there were seven hundred Lily clones 
floating merrily and bumping into everything

fortunately the ship was vast (and could be seen from 
The Great Wall of China):
the biggest issue was feeding and following them with a poop bag
as we sped from galaxy to galaxy

this remained a problem until I manafactured enough grub bots 
and poop bots to attend to all the Lilies various functions

so... my"Lilies" look cute in their little space suits
and ice cream ears, floating around the master control cabin
near the edge of the known universe

if anyone one needs a good little travel companion 
I have six hundred and ninety nine waiting "for a good home"

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