STAR**** **OOP**S: A Surreal Space Poetry Project – Page 20

Thanks for the image Teg!

Air
Grabs,
Lifts us
In[to] the
Open.

How?
It can’t…

Only time
Knows the way.
Not a lot here to work with. I think it shows.
Not a lot here to work with. I think it shows.

 

The first chapter is done. Twenty pages of hard sci-fi turned into one really confusing poem. With 243 pages left in the book. This project seems a lot larger in scale now than it did when I first started it. I originally thought that I could construct a poem out of each page in a bout ten or twenty minutes. Experience has shown though that this normally takes about an hour or more. Especially, so when skimming over the page I’m constructing two parallel poems and trying to decide which one will work best.

It’s been interesting, fun, and challenging. I don’t know if I’m learning anything yet from the experience.

 

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

Thanks to Teg for the image

 

“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

Thanks to Teg for the photoshopping

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…

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