A rocket takes off from from Dillon's Run Base
and launches toward the x-ray binary star system
called CHANDRA. The crew is evenly divided between
Engineers, who manage the space travel technology,
plot the course unerringly, and monitor hundreds
of cybernetic siblings, and we poets and ambassadors,
whose mission begins when the engineers' is finished.
They return but we remain as guests of the Autarch of
the watery metropolis of Mercier 976 for the whole
of our mortality. Such is our choice to serve two masters,
Earthly and Chandran, and blend our mammalian culture
with their reptilian culture, to make common cause
with all creatures for the expansion of civilization
across the Universe and the triumph of the Space Age.
This excellent poem by Daniel Brick is rare and somewhat strange. Here the reality is mixed with the scientific imagination in order to read the future of human life. This surreal dream is a rare piece of poetic creativity. I add it to my favorites list with 10/10.
with all creatures for the expansion of civilization across the Universe and the triumph of the Space Age.
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem
Engineers, who manage the space travel technology, plot the course unerringly, and monitor hundreds of cybernetic siblings, and we poets and ambassadors, whose mission begins when the engineers' is finished.