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Rogue Suffix VII
Metal floors and silver halls
Too far lost for nature's calls
Captain, heads of staff, AI;
Assistants weeps and clowns will cry
Awaiting none but upmost dread
To fear the loved and love the dead
Like runners who have been outran
The name will die before the man
My planet Earth, I dearly miss
Then I was cloned by geneticists
I'm not me; just another man
Science aligns with the captain's plan
I sacrifice for the better Jones
We live in space and die alone
The Wizard
A single tall falls from my eye
The terror which brings us all to cry
The wizard, tall with staff and wand
Detached, unlocked; a broken bond
Impenetrable--as strong as led
To let us taste the sleeping dead
But security spent all their time
Beating down the dressed-up mime
Tender Fruit
Awaken here to smell the ash
Of shattered minds and broken past
Of flapping skirts and slender suits
We'll cultivate our tender fruit
Transparency -- A Book of Poems
Written By: Zanzibar Jones
Fiction
Rogue Suffix VII
Metal floors and silver halls
Too far lost for nature's calls
Captain, heads of staff, AI;
Assistants weeps and clowns will cry
Awaiting none but upmost dread
To fear the loved and love the dead
Like runners who have been outran
The name will die before the man
My planet Earth, I dearly miss
Then I was cloned by geneticists
I'm not me; just another man
Science aligns with the captain's plan
I sacrifice for the better Jones
We live in space and die alone
The Wizard
A single tall falls from my eye
The terror which brings us all to cry
The wizard, tall with staff and wand
Detached, unlocked; a broken bond
Impenetrable--as strong as led
To let us taste the sleeping dead
But security spent all their time
Beating down the dressed-up mime
Tender Fruit
Awaken here to smell the ash
Of shattered minds and broken past
Of flapping skirts and slender suits
We'll cultivate our tender fruit