Quantum math
The boomeranging echo
deafening to receive
retro rockets smoking with the effort to retrieve
What dignity affords
Approaching the singularity
Where mathematics misbehave
Infinitely distorted space and time discovers I am brave
For this the final frontiers inimitable calling to me softly astral plane
Rosie the robot
Taking on a life of her own
Worlds beyond comprehensive control boweavil seeking her home
54321 Houston we
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Categories:
cadets, extended metaphor,
Form: Rhyme
Categories:
cadets, age, america,
Form: Haiku
Cadets Dress Ship
The tweet on the pipe called the muster fall-in
The cadets all fell in with nary a din
For now they’d be grouped for “Hands to Cleanship”
To dress up the ship afore the Old Man's pip-pip
Well-trained, the cadets set to their work
The Bo ‘suns and POGIs made sure they didn’t shirk.
The awnings were tautened
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Categories:
cadets, military, sea,
Form: Rhyme
Space Cadets
Waiter asked if I 'd like the special sauce
I asked him if he recommended it
He said that he did, and highly so
What's it called then, I wanted to know
Well, it's called "flying sauce, sir."
No thanks. I told him I preferred sauce
that just
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Categories:
cadets, food, word play,
Form: Light Verse
Scripture, Science, Cadets
Quickly and thoroughly as I possibly could
I scanned the pages in front of me.
The air, from the outset,
had been thick with dread,
in this place it often was.
So intimate and close a witness was I
that I couldn't help but wonder
if I may be incidentally decapitated
while she was pointedly decapitated.
I might or might not have wondered
if
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Categories:
cadets, childhood,
Form: Free verse