STAR**** **OOP**S: A Surreal Space Poetry Project – Page 19

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“Get him!”

[It] hurt[s]
Out
Arms
Bounc[ing]
Left, right,
One, two

Alone

The ground
Again and again

Cut off
I saw it
the open.
Far away,
A shield,
Too far away

Broke
Only broke.

 

The words that leapt out at me were the ones that painted a picture of a small boy on a playground being bullied, being beat, and zoning out in a fantasy of belonging...
The words that leapt out at me were the ones that painted a picture of a small boy on a playground being bullied, being beat, and zoning out in a fantasy of belonging…

STAR**** **OOP**S: A Surreal Space Poetry Project – Page 18

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The work?

Is alive.

I'[m] feeling
Expendable
[No,] expended.
Fired, buried.

Walk away?

Chance it?

Taste it?
The bombs and fire
That weigh [you] down.

*running away*
Think of each coupling as parts of a conversation? and the last line as action. Not my best work...
Think of each coupling as parts of a conversation? And the last line as action. Not my best work…

STAR**** **OOP**S: A Surreal Space Poetry Project – Page 17

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Trouble.
It'(s) burning
Hard, smoke
Thick.

Echoes
Muster fast.
Seconds left
And…

Bumbled,
Clicked off
And out
Dead.
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Trouble stands out when you are alone in space. Accidents can quickly become fatal. But, what is it like to die? Is it binary? On and off. In and out. Clicking on and off…

STAR**** **OOP**S: A Surreal Space Poetry Project – Page 16

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Full power
Charged
Out into,

Armor[ed], [and]
Ring[ed],

The Ways

Jumped,
Swarms bearing.

Hurr[ied],
Growls move [me] forward
[Into] trouble.

 

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So far this has been the most difficult page to turn into something. There’s just too much of of the specifics of Starship Troopers in here to make a good space opera poem out of. Though a poem about super models or drug addicts would be easy enough with some of these words. The ‘full power’ in the first line immediately made me think of Picard’s ‘Engage’ and Kirk’s ‘Ahead’ but getting the words to take those first two anywhere were hard to come by. I ended up with oblique references to a heavily armored ship traversing the void pursued by some unknown, perhaps supernatural, menace.
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