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Please to be thanking for you

this person who transmission [is] pleasing

transfer of goods/services

into your benevolent selves.

We have come, gods be spoken

between packing and material (?)

no artificial combustibles

essential data well repeated.

Stocked in sensitized protection

beside the open door of personal house,

transmitted century-years waiting

[of] your private benefit riches.

Instructions included in solitary

tug (push?) format easy engulfed

simply put in calculation device

activate and rejoice.

Teach secrets of sweat corn

its growth and nutrition

rejoice within you our

untrammeled selves.




David C. Kopaska-Merkel won the 2006 Rhysling Award for a collaboration with Kendall Evans, edits Dreams & Nightmares magazine, and has edited Star*Line and several Rhysling anthologies. His poems have appeared in Asimov’s, Strange Horizons, and elsewhere. A collection, Some Disassembly Required, winner of the 2023 Elgin Award, is available from him at jopnquog@gmail.com.
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