FEB 2010 Tanka and Brick
WE
by WC Roberts
a desolate place
on this plain, below the sky
grown heavy with ash--
we breathe in the very last
of the bottled air... and sigh
***
silicon synapses spawned
in biotech labs
revolution brought about
synapses in revolution
spawned labs silicon
brought about biotech
biotech spawned in
labs revolution brought
about silicon synapses
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