Picking Up the Pieces
The old society has been destroyed,
we are forging a new world
out the shards of the old.
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AlanKaterinsky's micropoetry
Alan Katerinsky is an assistant professor of computer security at Hilbert College.
Same Old Us
no matter how much we change
or are changed by technology,
we will still remain
recognizably human.
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Where We Used to Be
And tomorrow should have been
better.
And yesterday’s smashed stones
and silted concrete
tell no tales.
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We All Deserve a Break
Sissyphus sits by
having a smoke break amidst
the eternal flames
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Long Lost Young Man Has Returned
Richard, nine years agone
calls now from a new field,
where he has taken wing.
He has slipped gravity’s bonds
to the tune of three hundred pounds.
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Primary Candidates
They don’t even hear
the score of the tragic opera
they sing with aching,
noble, honeyed sadness.
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False Postives
Chiaperelli saw the lines
on the surface of Mars
and assumed they were caused
by intelligent life.
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When Harnessing Electricity Was New
Once they enticed water,
enslaved a disoriented river
to run angelic mills that chained lightning
and pushed back darkness
even if only for their today.
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Research & Development
I watch the things
that annoy me
to clarify
my thoughts.
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Dreams Meet Steamroller
What kind of ambulance
can revive someone from
that kind of letdown?
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