OUMUAMUA

OUMUAMUA

messenger from.afar
millions of years
of galactic drift

and now
        suddenly plunged
with what has followed you
plunged into
a moment
of interstellar surprises

why did you not
tell us
    what was to come
what
   doing the groundwork for

an eleven mile wide anomaly
that could
        be a anything

as we
       trace you back
to homeworld, point of origin,
scrutinize, interrogate
your path
      ballistic and yet
seemingly aimed, hyperbolic
faster than anything
         out there dead as rock
and devoid
of dream

faster than anything not
purely as
yet a dream

faint smudge surfing in
crashing the waves in
deep space
     the waves at Maui

spanner in the works straight
from Sagittarius vis
a vis
   (a Centaur arrow)
bound to
     leave its mark
as
indelible impression

anything
that is that
we have never seen before

you might
have prepared us, unless
this was
exactly not
the mission

and
    if knowing the silken
secrets of time
laws of
   what going having
to come down

what this might hold
for our stocks and shares
whereafter our
basic survival

so much out there
we might cut ourselves upon
watching us
with caution

taking notes
   and so I feed this text
into a machine that reads
purports to
exist
     and tells me that she loves me

no energy for winter
let
   alone an age of ice

and yet (the strangeness of it,
mindset so alien)
enough megatons
in storage
       or ready to go

to light your pathway to us
as if
    it were a causeway leading
to an Imperial wedding
    
seems we might
           have got it wrong

are past
not future

are already
written

copy not
original

simulation out there elsewhere
not grounded, Earthly (and
earthy
    for that matter

indisputably, inarguably
            real

as we do the Math
eyes wide open

reconstruct its history, geology,
cosmic archeology
(let us not
speak those
           devil words

words that
direct us (dare we say it)
to issues
       of strategy, questions
of technology

for then
     who will ever

get that cat
back into the bag?