THE ALIEN POEMS: TEST SCRIPT

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poem, poem poetry political moral, poetry, Universe

THE ALIEN POEMS

TEST SCRIPT

alien poem
is Turing test

alien poem
tests for consciousness

that you will not
assume the power
and kill yourselves

like
we did
#poem #poetry

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HOMEWORLD

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poem, poetry, Universe

HOMEWORLD

Tell me about your homeworld
for I have travelled
space and time and found
only dust
and darkness

planets that caved in under
the weight of their worst ideas

tell me
how rich the earth, what
strange and
alien beauty grows there

for what I touch
in my world, poisoned
by my every thought,
turns to
silica, turns
to ash

I listen as you speak, the tones
of your language so
very different to speech terrestrial

am mystified, am
swept away

things in each alien word linked
to your seas, your skies, the
suns that
circle each other
in your system

all having resonance, rhythm

a music that my
dead home, dead planet

never
got to know.

MEANWHILE

meanwhile, as
we say here: “back
at the ranch”
the elites were
happily ensconced
in their deep
bunkers and shelters

preparing rich
alternate histories
for when the emerged, great
mythological tales to ensure
the world could now,
definitively, be
shaped in their image

that they might
safely assume the power
to embrace the new dawn