October 18, 2009

Science Fiction

I can travel

faster than light

so can you

the speed of thought

the only trouble

is at destinations

our thought balloons

are coated invisible

no one there sees us

and we can’t get out

to be real or present

phone and videophone

are almost worse

we don’t see a journey

but stay in our space

just talking and joking

with those we reach

but can never touch

the nothing that can hurt us

how lovely and terrible

and lonely is this

-Les Murray

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