wooden ships
tar gets brittle in vacuum
and fish are scarce
but the seas of red sand
the beasts that scream at night
assu
***
at the gym
the robot attendant mocks us
with his atomic smile
we hate him
but he can bench two-thousand pounds
with one hand
we age
before his ever clear eyes
generation after generation
by dan smith
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