Asimov's SF, September 2009 by Unknown

Author:Unknown
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Published: 2011-07-10T14:01:06+00:00

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Poetry: NEARLY READY FOR OCCUPATION

by Danny Adams

The new place will be ready next year

next door to the old—a new Earth,

cleaner and brighter, the extended version

offering more land area for battles, sex,

road trips, political campaigns, and launching pads

for short term explorations of the universe.

—

I’m sentimental, perfectly willing to admit

I’ll miss the old place. Memories abounded:

Beach vacations, the Space Needle glittering at night,

Sumeria, the Roman Empire, Coney Island.

Of course there were Attila and Hitler too,

and Wall Street crashes and late utility payments,

but I don’t suppose the new place will be

so much of a paradise either.

—

We have a lot of baggage

to move next door.

Maybe we’d better start packing early.

—

—Danny Adams

Copyright (c) 2009 Danny Adams

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