Size / / /

wirelessly logged in 24-7
natural -> rent out unused space when credit's tight
Comcast runs sims on my downtime lobes
I get a discount on streaming
the deal works gr8
cept I think I caught a virus from WarnerBros
forced reboots during sex
just b4gasm,
frusr8ng, &,
most gurlz don't like it, also
when I swallow, sometimes
I see stars, big ones
or Kardashians,
& concijun skwEz'z my wrdz
wen I rite pOtry
sumthin offal




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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12 Jan 2026

Despite the barriers between different cetacean languages, our song crosses the vastness of the oceans, traveling in sync with the currents and even traversing great expanses of land. Our singing conveys the concept of “hope,” which is how we define the wait until our home feels safe again.
When you falter, recall that age is not your master
Do you swallow big blue whale eyes straight out of the jar?
When Le Guin talks about genre writers as “the realists of a larger reality” we surrender the power of that when we narrow our work to only depict one type of future. We have great power to restore alternate narratives, to re-broaden the range of imaginable futures.
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