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A Prophecy From the Lathe of Heaven


Kent Kemmish

	
 (There's nothing random here. It's just an arbitrarty heuristic
 cutoff point.)
 
 
 What I wrote to her
 my muse when i was dying
 i found a subset of fiction
 that deepened into itself
 like a sunset that can't end
 the horizon asymptotic
 the scene growing 
 barely more beautiful forever.
 If you keep looking you will
 find easy poetic precursors
 to all the physics of the
 next nine centuries i promise.
 And if you gut every instinct
 your pen is made to follow you'll
 come across a lair of glowworms
 so bright, thick, sliceable, and joyful
 in their rolling, so suddenly birds
 singing, so utterly space shuttle,
 that each weave and loom on thought
 too mosaic and utterance too fantasy,
 each waning motif of postmodern
 selfdefense, each protagonist orphaned
 by the plot to a universe adventureless
 but never without some tawdry peril,
 and to complete the music of this consideration,
 you'll come up to the peak of a hill,
 all your laziness bottled out of you,
 inspiration fully carbonated and athirst,
 where you'll sit dispensing ninja-sized
 nuggets of wisdom-kind children, floating
 to flight instantane without ESP, and then
 we'll have guardians, well-advertised
 star systems, fully reconfigurable constellations,
 nebula that don't go grim, freshest air in deepest space,
 the legislation of forever, in chains.
 Gee.
 ________

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