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Reconsider your reasons for travel;
they are likely inadequate.

If you insist upon leaving,
set your affairs in order first.

Carefully calculate coordinates,
accounting for celestial mechanics.

Remember that there is no returning
to the future you once inhabited.

Your appearance will thereafter alter
the timeline at which you arrive.

Many of us spend our lifetimes
searching for the worlds we left.



Mary Soon Lee is a Grand Master of the Science Fiction & Fantasy Poetry Association and a three-time winner of both the AnLab Readers’ Award and the Rhysling Award. Her latest book is How to Navigate Our Universe, a collection of astronomy poetry. Her website, cryptically named, is marysoonlee.com.
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