CAME LOOKING

CAME LOOKING

fuck that Chinese sci fi
writer telling us
hunters in the forest
better keep
our heads down

went out on a mission
looking for holes
in Fermi’s paradox
determined
to investigate them

sent out
my own little message
faster than time
itself possibly
arriving
before I sent it

no curt text engraved
in gold
    giving whosoever
the specs on our
divine image
    target co-ordinates
and
  John and Paul for
the benefit of Mr Kite
if you
   find a stylus, play it
like a
   LP record

no I commissioned every
quantum computer
to access all
our truth, across every
alternate universe
construct the
    definitive manual
guide to
   our impossibly complex
whims and
wiles             philosophies,
systems and
psychologists   no
danger, no sweat

no dark forest vibes
by the time
front to
      back
top to
bottom they would
have made
their calculations
imbibed our text

we would
be long gone

would be long gone
(three body problem
beautifully solved
solved beautifully)

SPIDER WASP (SEQUEL)

SPIDER WASP (SEQUEL)

spider wasp buzzing
the hell out of me

yes, sir, madam
I know your history

how you and that Darwin
bloke
       exploded ET phone home

got us
        alien-inseminated on
LV 426

       scared us out of our wits
and got a knighthood for
Sir Ridley

I’m watching you my little friend
coming in close giving me
a buzz seemingly
offering
      an improbable friendship

you should watch it too
Sigourney

        terrible if a wasp embryo
should eat its way through
your fine fine chest

don’t climb into the loader might
then think you
                 got eight legs

don’t ever want to give it that idea
since you know
      James Cameron going
to be calling for a sequel

FOR BLOOD

FOR BLOOD

asking for trouble
telling me I’m
not allowed to, supposed
to think
       like that

as if I’m dead in the apotheosis
of Solaris
            Chris
Kelvin           about to be absorbed
by massive
              alien love

and so
     I throw philosophy, or its
kitchen sink equivalent at you
hoping to
        shift your
tectonic plate

Nietzsche warning about the abyss
but here you
go falling
       into it

silly me, silly person

must be
      a horrible species of
xenomorphic extraterrestrial alien

having
      thick satirical acid for blood