today I saw a squirrel pause
beside a city road
to check for traffic

quickly I checked the news
but no : our leaders still don't care
about pandemics

that rodent, then
must have been a visitor
from some scifi stream

where foresight
won the secret war between
love and economics

#sciFiFri #TrueStory #squirrels #economics #pandemic #poem #poetry #poetrycommunity #vsspoem #vss365 #smallPoems #scifi
#wrdz

It looks like a Chrysalis or Mumified dead thing? It's still ten billion clicks away but is, or was, organic and it's projected path is heading for Earth orbit. It's moving too fast for interstellar rubble. What it is we've yet to learn but should we catch it before it reaches Pluto?

#SciFiFri Learn/Teach #vss365 Chrysalis

-It won't work, I said, unless you stand on your head.
Not being as flexible as us, the Human flipped over and balanced on head and two upper limbs.
+Nope, he said, the setting moon still looks bigger near the horizon.
-Sure; but can't you now see the Earth rising?

#SciFiFri work

#SciFiFri work

-Number One, do you see the Gorillas working for their supper?
+No, Captain Zorg.
-And what about the weaker species?
+They mostly work so a small elite can have a better supper.
-I see. And do you still think, Number One, that we should first negotiate with these "Humans"?

We did the work of hands--digging, planting, weeding. We built houses. Labor to build the world.

#ScifiFri #work #labor

Small asteroids, more space rocks really, gleaming briefly in the sun, before disappearing in the cold, sombre of space. Damn! It's laborious to manoeuvre the catch when they're not visible. I won't mind the work if they're packed with gold though.
#SciFiFri Work / Labour #vss365 Sombre

Is crafting a representation of his late wife enough for Thomas?

@medium_blog @scifi @cyberpunk @bookstodon @thestorygraph #scififri #writersofmastodon #indieauthors #newtomastodonsocial https://damienlawless.medium.com/chapter-2-99030145f221

new genetic engineering
will soon deliver young ones
with no external ears
but full internal streaming

they won't have need of #headphones
to nullify their fears
or cancel out the uncool noise
of old Earth screaming

#vss365 #SciFiFri #poem #poetry #poetrycommunity
#wrdz

eyelid text today
"accept this update or lose
your head phone access"

panic stations
after last month's installation
of Greed Is Good

there is no free space
in my critical circuits
for joy or dissent

or brotherhood

#vss365 headphones #SciFiFri #poem #poetry #wrdz

The headphones roar like erupting volcanoes. My eyes adjust to dull light & lightning flashes above. The sensors feed it all into my visor. The exploratory drone flies over wet lava towards Áine Corona but dies before it can get there. Another $b mission fail. I go get a coffee.
#SciFiFri Wet/Dry #vss365 Headphones

#scififri
... and then the world was blown to glass, a bauble floating under sun and stars. A billion silent nights; until cracks and bubbles grew over old power stations. Life had long departed, but this was Death returning. A worm behind the poison mirror.

We closed the exhibition.

--
(Sparked into life from this: https://zirk.us/@voimaoy/110910552135202825)
#wrdz

Once the world was made of grass. We made paper from hemp, and houses from bamboo. Our transportation was interurban monorails that ran on sweet corn fuel.
#SciFiFri #transportation

twas on the good ship Venal
in thrall to our lord Diesel
the masts on fire
the crew all liars
and every act illegal ...

#scififri transport
#poem #poetry #poetrycommunity #limerick
#wrdz

the swimming moon
is never twice the same
nor the wilder gleam
in our stranger eye

once
we pressed that dust
with boots of hope and metal
but left its loneliness uncured

for some later time

wait now
these hungry grasping claws
will stumble soon

#SciFiFri metal
#poem #poetry #poetrycommunity #wrdz

the hills are alive
with the sound of metal wings
soft hiss of power

angry storms are stored
asleep in ice-ground hollows
such grand potential

southern estuary
bankers burning at both ends
the planet's wonders

where will they go
when the rising waters flow
over river banks

prepare your dams
and your sharpened silver blades
the flood is coming

-

#scififri #poem #poetry #wrdz

He was the last member of the metal dragon clan. Once, the sky had been dark with them, their fire and thunder. Alone in the blue sky, he looked down on peaceful farms, and cried hailstone tears.
#SciFiFri #metal

Tonight is 'Metal Night' & I'm reviewing this "show" in Venus Cloud City, for Home Planet News, on Earth. I don't get it at all - live, gnarly, stinking misfits, with homemade, museum piece instruments, making this high energy cacophony. This when quality, creative, AI music is free on thought request and piped straight into the brain to enjoy.
#SciFiFri Metal #vss365 Gnarled

Emerging from the subway, I blended in with the crowd. How many were aliens like me, I wondered. Then I saw her, my contact. Black jacket, blonde hair. Excuse me, I said. Do you have the time? Now, she said. She handed me a briefcase. Good luck.
#SciFiFri #alien #contact

"Hey, what's this tribunal is about?"
"Remember that strange signal out by Pluto 9 yrs ago?"
"The weird distress call thing? Where we had to really go for it with the thermic blasters on the hatches to gain access."
"Yh, just melted Gloop inside. So?"
"Idiots just got round to analysing it. Alien DNA."
"Bummer! 1st contact didn't work out then."
#SciFiFri Alien/Contact #vss365 Gloop

#SciFiFri

2nd contact:
From their tallest peak a tower thrusts in steel and stone, then sticks and bones. Desiccated corpses scatter down the leeward side, tinfoil "spacesuits" fluttering in the wind
Below, all towns are silent, fields overgrown
We are cargo cult, it seems

#sf #alien