abandoning the planet

By | 1 February 2020

leave
in whatever
can be found
and commandeered,
kites, tube trains,
44 gallon drums,
abandoning
gravity
as the first step

maintain
(in a nominal biosphere)
a skeleton crew
only
for pro-active archaeological
preparations
(to build
irrelevant yet enduring
monuments)
and to feed the animals
in the zoo

keep floating
outwards,
maintain a uniform
3-dimensional globe,
like the detritus
of a supernova
explosion
(but faster)

rush past
alien civilisations
and tweak their
spaceward
installations
with random data

become ions
fizzing
in the juice
of space,
and execute
anomalies of sub-particle
physics
with mathematical
precision

follow the curves
of space
that involute into
the curves of time,
and fall back
to the planet
as no more
than an idea
in the minds
of proto-men
cowering in firelit caves –
we will be God –
one day

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