Death Science Poems

If there was a suit
A suit of sensors
Aware of your actions
Following your mind, your movements
A jeopardy suit
That killed you with a lethal injection
When an imaginary...

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an example of tragic magic, 
          the death 
     of Harry Houdini
...

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Dust pulls upon dust; pushes upon dust
and each drifting, spinning mote 
collides; all drawing closer.
Meaningless time passes
and pursues; blindly following 
The unbidden remnants
of endless darkened...

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So suddenly 
it appears in
my Facebook
feed as if it
has always been
part of nature
as if it always
made its presence
known in all the years 
of nature shows...

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POEMS ABOUT SCIENCE 5: EVOLUTION



Fly’s Eyes
by Michael R. Burch

Inhibited, dark agile fly along
paint-peeling sills, up to the bright glass drawn
by radiance compounded thousandfold,—
I do not...

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The air feels dark.
What a curse
to know I'm alone
the last on the ship
drifting through space.
The ice creeps up my hand
I know I didn't make it...

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Earth Eulogy

By Mark D. Stucky
She was a good planet,
put to death in her prime
by a pandemic of people.
Homo-sapiens was a disease
with mutating and metastasizing
technological and...

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don't be fooled by the grey beard, 
I'm the science fiction you speak of, 
the little wizard bloke in the picture
whose antics between gravestones
and christening...

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it's like surfing; 
over lifetimes I can't 
remember, but
carrying little pieces
over, adding new drops
to sugary, rolling waves, 
falling, riding; shouting
occasionally at the devil
or you when...

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“I’m sure it’s hard to get used to,
but it’s the only way you’d survive,”
Cy explained, and said, “Unlike me
at least you’ll have plenty of guides.

“See,...

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“But we realized, decades on back,
how consciousness burns out machines,
we are not gods when we create,
there are hard limits to our dreams.

“And the same questions...

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...He laughed at memes, he watched podcasts,
rolled digital eyes at the news,
saw endless reams of adult stuff,
why they liked it, he never knew…

But in this...

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His first moment was a strange one,
he senses told him not a thing,
but he knew words and he knew thoughts,
oh, so many thoughts were spinning.

Then...

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there will be a baby crying 
in the next room, but not yet
people are still standing around
my bed and I'm still on my last breaths
they...

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ABORT ABORT
but Donaldson was already drifting
further and further away from us
the thickness of his suit decreasing 
as his courageous kindness
floated on within his demise 
and...

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