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)